Back in the 1900's Ladies Home Journal made a series of predictions about what the future would look like. Here's a link to all of the predictions. I've posted some of the most interesting below.
-The American will be taller by from one to two inches. His increase of stature will result from better health, due to vast reforms in medicine, sanitation, food and athletics. He will live fifty years instead of thirty-five as at present – for he will reside in the suburbs. The city house will practically be no more. Building in blocks will be illegal. The trip from suburban home to office will require a few minutes only. A penny will pay the fare.
-There Will Be No Street Cars in Our Large Cities. All hurry traffic will be below or high above ground when brought within city limits. In most cities it will be confined to broad subways or tunnels, well lighted and well ventilated, or to high trestles with “moving-sidewalk” stairways leading to the top. These underground or overhead streets will teem with capacious automobile passenger coaches and freight with cushioned wheels. Subways or trestles will be reserved for express trains. Cities, therefore, will be free from all noises.
-Photographs will be telegraphed from any distance. If there be a battle in China a hundred years hence snapshots of its most striking events will be published in the newspapers an hour later. Even to-day photographs are being telegraphed over short distances. Photographs will reproduce all of Nature’s colors.
-No Mosquitoes nor Flies. Insect screens will be unnecessary. Mosquitoes, house-flies and roaches will have been practically exterminated. Boards of health will have destroyed all mosquito haunts and breeding-grounds, drained all stagnant pools, filled in all swamp-lands, and chemically treated all still-water streams. The extermination of the horse and its stable will reduce the house-fly
This got me in the mind to start predicting what life will look like 100 years from now. I predict in 100 years we'll no longer use Fossil Fuels (at least I hope we won't). I predict that all media whether it be television, radio, the internet, etc will be accessible through one device. I predict politicians will still lie a lot. I predict conventional guns will be replaced with laser guns that give anyone they hit uncontrollable diarrhea (at least I hope they are).
Your turn. What do you think the world will look like in 100 years?
Thursday, April 19, 2007
I predict...
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3 comments:
First, I am interested in why you are so savvy in regards to ladies' magazines?
My predictions: 99% of all communicable diseases will be eradicated in Western civilization with great strides made in 3rd world countries as well. I predict either new forms of energy and/or a return to natural energies (wind/solar/water, etc) for power and fuel. I forsee more improvements in technology, but I fear the information age will lead to continued isolation of more individuals as it replaces community, resulting in loneliness and discontent for many who allow it to take over their lives.
I have every issue of every women's magazine published since the early 1900's except one issue of Red Book from the earlie 1980's that only saw limited distribution before being pulled due to a recipe being printed in which the author suggested using sawdust to stretch the recipe if you ran out of hamburger.
Okay, every bit of that was a lie. I have no interest in ladies' magazines. I found the article on the predictions the same way I find everything - by screwing around on the internet at work.
I'm so disappointed Patrick. EVERYBODY wastes time at work on the Internet...I like your first explanation better, so that's the one I'll believe.
BTW, awesome video this weekend. I laughed very hard.
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