This Paleo-Future blog looks at predictions from 1900 of what life was to be like in 2000 and beyond. Some of it is strikingly spot on and some of it is just hilarious. The author of the forecast, none other than John Elfreth Watkins, Jr., seems to have an obsession with the not-so-imminent “gigantic foods” craze
My favorite quote, regarding what would become “radio”:
Automatic instruments reproducing original airs exactly will bring the best music to the families of the untalented.
What he fails to foresee is that there would be a lack of talent on both ends of the airwaves!
So I’m curious - what do you think life will be like in one hundred years?
Salt water for car fuel?
Evolved “green” practices?
Holideck?