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b_b · 4142 days ago · link · · parent · post: "What May Happen in the Next 100 Years," published in the Ladies Home Journal, 1900.
I think the message here is that its easy to predict that things that are already invented will get a lot better, but its really hard to presage inventions that have not yet occurred. That seems tautological, but three years after this was published the airplane was first successfully tested. That certainly cut the travel time to England to just slightly less than two days. Its also odd to see the obsession with big plants. I wonder what cultural psychology was driving those speculations. The most ominous prediction is about the advent of big guns, which did come true, a fact that the world would come to be familiar with 14 years later in WWI.