Red Letter Day

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

An amazing prediction of the future

Check out this amazing look into the future from a magazine 100 years ago. It has the usual silly mis-predicitons that all futurism seems plagued by, but what is amazing is how many predictions it actually gets mostly or partly right, including central air conditioning, sealed take-out meals, television, radio, widespread international telecommunication, city-wrecking bombs, the ubiquitousness of automobiles, near universal availability of college education, and even things like factory farming of animals and advanced medical imaging technology.

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