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One of our favorite things to daydream about is what the future will look like. We’re huge fans of sci-fi, and it’s a personal hobby of ours to try and try to make personal predictions not just for the upcoming year, but what the next decade and even century might offer. This love of futurology is nothing new—people have been trying to foresee the distant past for ages.
Paul Fairie, a researcher at the University of Calgary, put together a viral thread about the predictions made by people in 1923 about life in 2023. Some of these are wild and come with a very definite retrofuturistic, utopian twist! Scroll down to check out how folks living a century ago imagined our present, upvote the newspaper clippings that caught your eye the most, and take a peek at how the internet reacted to Paul’s post.
What do you think 2023 will bring, dear Pandas? What do you imagine 2123 might look like? Share your thoughts in the comments.
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#1
By 2023 there'll be no mail between New York and San Francisco. Pittsburgh and London concerns will record, on talking films, orders from merchants in Peking, and 1,000-mile-an-hour freighters will make deliveries of goods before sunset. Watch-size radio telephones will keep everybody in communication with the ends of the earth.
N Miller 2 years ago
This is pretty close to accurate (don't know anything about US mail to comment on the first part). 1000mph frieghters aren't quite right, but we do have deliveries before sunset, Ali Baba is a thing, and smart watches are increasingly affordable and common.
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago
Maybe not freighters, but we do have cargo planes that can deliver smaller goods across countries and oceans overnight. Not 1000 miles an hour, but around half that speed. We also have Zoom meetings and Apple Watches, so even though the prediction is couched in terms understandable to someone in 1923, they’re actually pretty spot on.
Pedantic Panda 2 years ago
Whilst the freighters have not come as yet, pretty sure they're talking about smart watches.
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#2
No More Hard Work by 2023!
DR. CHARLES P. STEIN- METZ, the electrical expert, believes that the time is coming when there will be no long drudgery and that people will toil not more than four hours a day, owing to the work of electricity. He visualizes an amazing transformation in life in 2023. Every city will be a "spotless town." That is to be the work of electricity, also.
JoMeBee 2 years ago
This is actually frustrating to me 'cause the mental workload in my field has increased probably 20x due to computers...
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago
Physical drudgery replaced by mental drudgery. Mind numbing, soul sucking mental drudgery.
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deejak 2 years ago
All that extra productivity is funneled straight into the pockets of the 1% and drives the wealth gap.
Biofish23 2 years ago
THIS! Greater efficiency has been turned in to greater profit for a few at the top, rather than shorter hours for workers.
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Esme Weatherwax 2 years ago
So near yet so far. Although the use of robots in manufacturing has decreased some drudgery although I do wonder about the factories making the robots for factories - are there factories making robots to make robots to make robots to work in factories
Kip Kip 2 years ago
What the Dr didn't count on is that if productivity goes up significantly, people won't use that to do less work, but to gain more luxury. The wants of humans are pretty much endless. If we would have been satisfied with the level of luxury and goods from 1923, we probably could do working leas than r hours per day.
David Paterson 2 years ago
I retired in 2013, so no more hard work for 2023. More seriously, people are living a lot longer after retirement; back when I started full time work, men died on average six months after retirement. And many more people working are part time now.
VulcansAreSexy 2 years ago
Yes but most of the part time workers I know are working multiple part time jobs
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CHRISTY SMITH 2 years ago
Don't other Countries have a 4 day work week though? I mean in the States your job is constantly trying to kill you with stress and low pay, but don't other Countries actually have sense in, not a 4 hour workday, but a 4 day work week? I personally feel a 4 day work week would be fair in most cases.
Roe Rainrunner 2 years ago
Well it says 4h/day. I know a lot of countries trying (!) 4day/week, but still they work 8-10h a day :-(
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At the time of writing, Paul’s thread was viewed nearly 9 million times, and got over 56k likes on the social media platform. And it’s no wonder. He made the thread incredibly relatable, provided entertainment as well as education, and really got Twitter thinking about the past, as well as the far future.
Some of the most interesting predictions that people in 1923 made included how by the current year, we’d have 4-hour workweeks, everyone will be disease-free and beautiful, and how we might all live till we’re 300. Cancer would also be a thing of the past. Someone even predicted that radio would replace gasoline, and that’s a retrofuturistic aesthetic that we’d very much want to see play out in a movie or TV show.
#3
Cancer, tuberculosis, infantile paralysis, locomotor ataxia, and leprosy will be eradicated.
XenoMurph 2 years ago
A lot of cancers are much more treatable. There's no magic bullet. But a LOT of progress has been made. And vaccines and antibiotics means many previously deadly diseases are almost eradicated or easily traetable.
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Biofish23 2 years ago
Not eradicated, but close in many cases. Cancer, not eradicated, and probably never will be, because we know now it isn't one disease, but a symptom with 100s or 1000s of causes, but we have come sooooo far with treatments. Infantile paralysis is polio. This one we should have eradicated by now, we have been close for decades. Currently it is only found in two countries of the world. Locomotor ataxia I had to look up, it is the neurological decay of late stage syphilis. It is exceptionally rare now, because we can treat syphilis early with antibiotics. Leprosy can be treated with antibiotics, no more leper colonies!
BlueEyesWhiteDragon 2 years ago
We haven't done too badly on most of these. And many cancers have a much higher survival rate than they used to.
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago (edited)
At least those diseases are no longer 100% death sentences, as long as they’re caught as early as possible and there’s good medical care available to treat them.
Linda R Ryan 2 years ago
Infantile paralysis is polio. Not eradicated yet due to lack of worldwide vaccine availability. And anti-vaxxers...
Roe Rainrunner 2 years ago
Well, thanks to vaccines we fought tuberculosis and infantile paralysis and leprosy can be healed with antibiotics. Also there is cancer monitoring, so we can figure it out in an early state and try to heal it - which saved many people's life. I think it's good.
#4
Fewer Doctors and Present Diseases Unknown; All People Beautiful
Beauty contests will be unnecessary as there will be so many beautiful people that it wil be almost impossible to select winners. The same will apply to baby contests.
Damitria 2 years ago
Would love the eradication of beauty pagents. Especially child beauty pagents
PotatoPanda 2 years ago
Beauty pageants seem to be fun with the right people, then you get the parents making up for their miserable life
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BlueEyesWhiteDragon 2 years ago
People probably are, on average, more beautiful now than in the past. Less childhood malnutrition, more vaccines for disease that lead to scarring (like smallpox), better dental care and hygiene, and readily available skincare and plastic surgery give us a decent edge.
JoMeBee 2 years ago
Emphasis on "plastic" surgery. It's crazy to my how cookie cutter a number of celebrities and influencers are becoming...
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Well, we HAD a lot of diseases nearly eradicated, but the goddamned anti-vaxxer ignoramuses totally f****d that all up.
Abigail Strong 2 years ago
I know what baby contests are, but they sound like "who can birth their baby the fastest"
Esme Weatherwax 2 years ago
Well they got it spot on about beauty - filters make everyone beautiful for a given value of beauty. The same applies to kids beauty pageants.
your mother(she/her) 2 years ago
beauty pageants are so toxic. like the ones with young girls are just not healthy for kids
Pedantic Panda 2 years ago
Correct in the eradication of certain diseases but did not see the fact that doctors are always needed as people will always be dying.
One prediction that was eerily accurate was that the United States would have a population of 300 million. As it stands currently, there are nearly 332 million people living in the US.
However, the person who thought that there would be 100 million Canadians in a hundred years was wrong: right now, there are just over 38 million people living in Canada.
#5
The population of the United States in the year 2023, probably 300.000,000, will imply an immense progress in the drainage of our low lands, in the irrigation of arid lands.
pink_panda 2 years ago
Unfortunately, there are severe side effects to draining wetlands and irrigating arid lands. We can't just make every square foot habitable to humans and everything will be fine.
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Rougarou Cher 2 years ago
That drainage of the lowlands gets me. That really is what they were pushing for back then and Marjory Stoneman Douglas was one of the reasons it wasn't done to the FL everglades from what I've read. Development of natural low-lying floodplains has really caused flooding damage in lots of areas around here.
Dre Mosley 2 years ago
Close, a little higher than their estimate. Around a quarter of that is in three of the fifty states.
#6
In reading a forecast of 2023 when many varieties of aircraft are flying thru the heavens, we do not begin the day by reading the world's news, but by listening to it for the newspaper has gone out of business more than half a century before.
Damitria 2 years ago
Well, not completely wrong. Newspapers are still around but dying out and we are both listening to and reading news just in a different format
PotatoPanda 2 years ago (edited)
I like paper, it gives a comforting feeling holding it, having to get the right grip to be able to see, all the funny comics (also I'm Gen z) edit:spelling
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Geoffrey Scott 2 years ago
Interesting that it was assumed "news" would not change as well. Now there's an outlet for every deranged thought.
Powerful Katrinka 2 years ago
This has mostly come true, alas. The tragedy of the demise of newspapers is the drastic reduction in the number of journalists. And smaller newspapers have broken some of the most important stories of the last few decades. The Miami Herald exposed the back room deals that were protecting Jason Epstein. And a small paper was the first to George Santos's pathological lying.
Dre Mosley 2 years ago
Not quite, but fewer and fewer are reading physical papers. I haven't picked up one in at least a few years.
Mary-ann Wythe 1 year ago
newspapers have almost gone out of business due to conglomerates that own most of the papers and they all regurgitate the same lies. veracity is at a minimum and alternate opinions are not considered. Both sides of a story no longer exists.
Garry Cowan 2 years ago
Once the younger generation that's used to smartphones and the internet for their news , newspapers will die and be consigned to museums
Predicting the future is never easy, but there are some things that we can do to make our guesses a bit more accurate. A while back, Bored Panda spoke to Aaron Genest, an expert on labor in the tech and innovation industry and manager at Siemens. He explained to us that we have to take a peek at the investment space if we want to know what the technological landscape will likely look like in a few years’ time.
"I'd argue that most people underestimate the timelines necessary to produce the technological goods on which we rely and the investment made to allow them to exist. By looking 'upstream' in that investment space, we can have a pretty good idea of what whole industries are betting on," he told us.
"For instance, it takes almost two years to develop and produce a computer chip and get it to market for a phone, and five years to get something into a new kind of car. So if we want to have a sense for what, for instance, the gadgets in our cars will look like in 2026, we just need to look at what the car manufacturers are asking their suppliers to design today,” the expert told Bored Panda earlier.
#7
A new Polar airline is opened making flights across the north pole from Chicago to Hamburg possible in 18 hours.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
18 hours on a plane. Woof! It makes the two weeks on a steamer look pretty good IMO.
Robert T 2 years ago
Not quite that far North, but it is an arc rather than a straight line when plotted on a flat map
Load More Replies... the Return of Bruno 2 years ago
Dumb to characterize it as going across the north pole, but arctic... yeah.
#8
A scientist says a century from now the average length of human life will be 300 years. Quite a change. We of today have been living that long about once a month.
Tai Dallen 2 years ago
I don't know if a cockroach should be talking about life spans... how many years have you lived headless again?
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CHRISTY SMITH 2 years ago (edited)
Living 300 years sounds like a goddamn nightmare! If they ever found a way to make humans live 300 years, Corporations would be jizzing themselves over getting to walk of employees backs an extra 285 years for the same pay (in the States). Life in general is not remotely close to be worth living that long for most ppl.
Liam Walsh 2 years ago
They'd have to massively improve moisturiser!! Can't imagine how we'd look with 300 years on the clock! 👴
Load More Replies... Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
I guess if you take the life expectancy increases from things like antibiotics and vaccines you could have extrapolated that from the massive explosion in life expectancy in the early 20th century. The problem with that is you make that assumption with child mortality. A century ago, childhood disease was a major cause of death. But if you made it to adulthood, you were probably going to live until old age. I can see someone looking at the numbers, including child and infant mortality and believing that the average age of death is going up, when it actually wasn't.
eric riggs 1 year ago
this is from the common misunderstanding about how our "life expectancy" has been rising. But it hasn't been rising because people live longer (or not much, anyway). It's been rising because there are many many fewer infant and child deaths. Humans will never live longer than about 120 to 130 years at the outside, and the the last 20 or so of those years will never be super healthy, mobile years, for those who do live that long... by about 100 people are struggling to get around. My grandmother lived to 97, and she depended on her family and friends quite a lot in her final years.
As such, ‘futurists’ and prognosticators don’t have some crystal ball that they look into to divine the future. They look at where billions upon billions of dollars are invested. The way that work is managed might change as well. The Covid-19 pandemic forced the world to embrace hybrid or fully remote work.
Teleworking suddenly became a viable alternative to showing up at the office. Though, of course, the exact opinion on this varies wildly from company to company and from industry to industry.
#9
WS SHOULD WORRY.
Good night! It is now predicted that by the year 2023 - only a mere little stretch of a century ahead - women will probably be shaving their heads! And the men will be wearing curls. Also the maidens may pronounce it the height of style in personal primping to blacken their teeth. Won't we be pretty? - Savannah News.
Damitria 2 years ago (edited)
And several women DO rock the bald/shaved look
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Nadia D 2 years ago (edited)
My daughter just shaved her head and her bf is curly 🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣 Waiting for teeth blackening now
The Other Other White Meat 2 years ago
I mean, does it have to be permanent? Because charcoal toothpaste is black! And it works wonders!
Load More Replies... BlueEyesWhiteDragon 2 years ago
I mean...women do shave their heads and I've always liked curly-haired guys. Blackened teeth might be the next big thing among the face tattoo set.
Luna Crow 2 years ago
Maybe they were looking at charcoal toothpaste users? Can be blurry in a crystal ball..
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Jill Bussey 2 years ago
Blackened teeth were most definitely a fashion statement in Japan, as well as other countries.
Erik Ivan 2 years ago
My baby sister has a shaven head. It was the least bad look since the hair started to fall when she started her chemo therapy a few months back. And yes. Everything has gone well. They discovered the cancer early, and the prediction is full recovery. Currently, she has radiation therapy just to be on the safe side.
DE Ray 2 years ago
Tooth blackening isn't poor hygiene. The process is a lot like sealing the teeth with high concentration fluoride, only using a ferrous acetate solution. It doesn't last as long as fluoride, having to be re-applied every two weeks or so, but it does a remarkable job of protecting against cavities. Used to be common in east Asian countries.
#10
CURLS FOR MEN BY 2023 PREDICTS ANTHROPOLOGIST
Bases His Statement on Trend of Masculine and Feminine Styles.
Damitria 2 years ago
Mens hair care and styles have evolved and some guys do look fabulous with long, curly hair
XenoMurph 2 years ago
The video for "The Final Countdown" 1986, kinda proves your point.
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Debbie Evans 2 years ago
I'm 37 and live in Wales. I've seen a trend in the younger male generation where they shave their hair on the sides, grow it on top and perm it...seriously, it's the 'In' thing right now
Esme Weatherwax 2 years ago
Wouldn't it be great to see their faces if they could see any runway during fashion week.
Meanwhile, during another interview, Ramona Pringle, the Director of the Creative Innovation Studio and an Associate Professor at the RTA School of Media at Ryerson University, explained to Bored Panda what tech trends we might see. Storytelling. Connectivity. Entertainment. These are the things that should survive in the coming decades.
“We don’t know what the future holds, and anyone who says that they do is selling snake oil. But, there are certain things we can count on: we love stories, and we love to be part of something bigger than ourselves. Be it oral storytelling, books, blogs, movies, or video games, we’ve never lost our love of narrative,” the expert said.
“Equally true, even when we can’t go into a concert hall or colosseum, we look for ways to be together, connected, and part of a communal experience. The tech might change, but these will continue to be the drivers of our entertainment experiences,” Pringle told Bored Panda some time ago.
#11
The private kitchen will disappear. Tomorrow's food will be seasoned and prepared by chemical formulas, which will preserve the freshness of fruits and meats, rid them of indigestible qualities, and send them to the table ready to use. Instead of sauces that merely cozen the palate, we shall have delectable blends of concentrated vitamines, calories, ferments, and tissue tonics.
David Paterson 2 years ago
And vitamin pills. Fruit varieties that don't go rotten before we eat them. And good quality fresh and processed meats.
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Leoninus Fate 2 years ago
doordash almost did this am i right? we didn't go into our kitchens for WEEKS
#12
"Kidney cosies" will be worn to protect the kidneys on chilly days, just the same as a teapot in the north is kept warm by a "tea cosy."
BlueEyesWhiteDragon 2 years ago
Well, maybe we should be wearing kidney cosies. I'll link my Etsy shop once I get production up to speed. 😂
Damitria 2 years ago (edited)
New grandma knitting/crocheting project! Yeah! * goes to hunt up yarn and hooks*
DE Ray 1 year ago
It's not as dumb as it might seem at first - most of your blood passes through the kidneys, and they are located relatively close to the skin. If you put something warm over your kidneys, it will keep your entire body warmer than if you put the same device over your hand or leg or head.
“Immersion and interactivity have long been goals for creators and media makers when it comes to how technology can influence entertainment,” she said.
“For the last decade, we’ve leaned into virtual reality because of how it enables both of these. We can step inside a world and have influence over it, and the story or experience that unfolds. I think one of the things we can expect moving forward is, in a sense, the opposite of virtual reality. Instead, more of an enhanced reality or fictional reality, wherein the entertainment isn’t in a headset, but instead, all around us,” the expert noted.
“A decade ago, we didn’t talk to robots. Today, many of us do. Siri and Alexa are some of the more common bots, but we already interface with non-human characters regularly. As technology advances, including augmented reality and mixed reality, I think we can expect that entertainment will be something we can engage with off of the screen, but out in the world, with characters and stories we can engage with throughout the day, or throughout our houses,” she told Bored Panda.
#13
THE WAR OF A.D. 2023.
Professor Forecasts Wireless Wonders.
|How we shall fight in A.D. 2023" is the subject of a contribution by Professor A. M. Low to the September "Nineteenth Century and After." The professor dwells on latest scientific war terrors, and refers to an invention of his own-jets of water highly charged with electricity- which will render cavalry obsolete.
"The war of 2023," he proceeds, "will naturally be a wireless war, for there is no end to the possibilities of this wonderful force."
"Wireless telephony, sight, heat, power and writing may all play important parts.
Professor Low states that at the present time he can, by an expenditure of about three horse-power destroy a wire at a distance of more than a yard without any connection at all.
Professor Low concludes that it is quite possible that when civilisation has advanced another century, mental telepathy will exist in embryo, and will form a very useful method of communication.
BlueEyesWhiteDragon 2 years ago
Drone warfare. As for telepathy...quick what am I thinking right now?
Laura Jackson 2 years ago
You're thinking about if someone can really guess what you're thinking about correctly. Am I right?👍😁
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Jill Bussey 2 years ago
This is the saddest post. War hasn't changed. It's still brutal, expensive and is based in greed, intolerance, and bigotry.
C 2 years ago
Unfortunately, he also said that we wouldnt be advanced enough to have scientists pressing a button to cause destruction.... We absolutely do. He also said submarines would be the future of warfare and cargo transporting and wireless messages would be impossible to scramble so people would always be stealing them. Dont leave out the actual article...
Esme Weatherwax 2 years ago
Wireless warfare? I just want to watch Love Island without buffering
#14
By 2023 the average life of man could be increased to 100 years. In individual cases it could be increased to 150, perhaps 200 years.
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago (edited)
We DO have more centenarians, though. I’m 62, and remember when reaching 100 got you a letter from the president and your picture on TV. Now we have 100 year old people—-and even older—-who aren’t in a rocking chair covered in a shawl, but are still working and/or volunteering their time, and who are mentally and physically fit, sharp as a tack, and still contributing their skill, experience, knowledge, and wisdom to society.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
A lot of these long life predictions are because of the sudden decrease in infant and childhood mortality in the early 20th century thanks to vaccines and antibiotics.
Biliegh they/them 2 years ago
A lot of people are living to 111 and 112 I think someone e is 114 I read last month. We could get to the 150 mark in the future I'm sure
“Whoever would have thought that people would pay money to watch other people play games? Media that engages us and gives us something to gather around, be it together, or virtually, is something that will always appeal to us,” she said.
“In the last few years, we’ve seen the rise of interactive and immersive venues like the museum of ice cream or the Dr. Seuss experience. These are places we can go, with friends and family, and have a shared experience. It feeds back into our online experiences because we can share photos or memories and these environments are designed to foster that,” the researcher explained to us back in 2020.
#15
Canada may well have 100,000,000 people. She is powerful now, with her fine equipment for transport, of commerce and trade, equipment sufficient to serve twice the number of people she has today, and with 100,000,000 population, who can set bounds to the power of Canada 100 years from now.
ShaZam Beaubien 2 years ago
You would think that's possible ... with all the American's pledging to move to Canada.
Just Another Girl 2 years ago
Canada's population was estimated at 39,292,355 people on October 1, 2022
Aspiring Canuck 2 years ago
Heather Menard -- the Lower Mainland of British Columbia is warmer than most of the US.
Powerful Katrinka 2 years ago
I do! I'd move to Northern Canada in a heartbeat if it wasn't so hard to become a Canadian citizen.
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#16
Utensils and dwellings will be manufactured largely of pulps and cements so as to utilize vegetation and stone in every stage of decay, ordinary waste or unfitness.
BlueEyesWhiteDragon 2 years ago
We're working on it! https://www.residentialproductsonline.com/rise-plant-based-building-materials
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
That's happened. We just aren't utilizing it. We have the technology, but we are failing to use it because oil is still too cheap.
“Certainly, as we find ourselves in a time of social distancing, we’re seeing new creative ways of ‘being together’ even when we’re apart. So I think we can expect to see entertainment that helps us connect, be it online or off, and immerses us in an experience, story, or community.”
#17
Minneapolis Journal: It is an attractive prophecy that Glenn Curtiss, the airplane authority, gives of airflight. He predicts that by the year 2023 gasoline as a motive power will have been replaced by radio, and that the skies will be filled with myriad craft sailing over well-defined routes.
Henry Russell 2 years ago
radio killed the gasoline guy radio killed the gasoline guy
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
Microwave transmission of power has been built and tested, but it still hasn't reached practicality. Well, practicality outside of your kitchen at least.
Catherine Walsh 2 years ago
I’m still waiting for my flying car. I don’t have too much time left, so get on it Ford.
Steve Robert 2 years ago
I had a Radio Flyer as a kid, but it didn't fly, but I did have to transistor radio that picked up sounds from the air
Which predictions caught you by surprise? What do you personally think the future will look like, a century from now? Share some of your thoughts in the comments.
When you’re done with this list, check out Bored Panda’s feature about Paul’s earlier thread about how “nobody wants to work anymore,” going all the way back to 1894.
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BlueEyesWhiteDragon 2 years ago
My new goal is to make all of these come true this year. Gonna figure out how to cure a few diseases and increase life expectancy, but I should be able to do that by April. The REAL challenge will be getting guys to curl their hair.
Om 2 years ago
aren't a lot of young guys already curling their hair for that broccoli hairdo?
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Powerful Katrinka 2 years ago
What a great, thought-provoking post! So much better than the never ending stream of AITAs and TikTok idiocy.
Kenny Kulbiski 2 years ago
I didn't see the flying car that was always predicted. I've been waiting for it all my life.
XenoMurph 2 years ago
Taxi drones might be a thing soon, but too noisy and awkward to be used to replace cars.
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Agnes Jekyll 2 years ago
My great aunt was 99 when she died 8 years ago. She came to Canada in a covered wagon--the technological advancements she witnessed in her lifetime are amazing, along with social change.
Jesse Corder 2 years ago
I love how the prediction of a 300 year lifespan is somehow proven after only 100 years.
El Dee 2 years ago
What futurists always forget is our attachment to older, inefficient ways. We LIKE making things by hand, we value home cooked meals and our grandmother's recipe. Newspapers really could have gone out of business but although circulation is tiny now I think there may be a limited market purely because people enjoy the physicality of them. Kinda like how vinyl records have hung on..
Om 2 years ago
and that applies to other things as well, like fashion or music. Most of the "new trends" are just recycled things that were introduced 20-30 years ago. I don't particularly like the 70's or 80's fashion, but I envy that they got to wear extravagant clothes and hairdos, and it was normal, but in my lifetime I've only got to wear "normal" clothes. Like, most people just wear a variant of jeans and shirts, sober colors for the most part. No weird shapes or textures. And with music, I guess the early 2000's were the last time I heard a new kind of sound, after that it's just sounds recycled from previous eras. It's like people are allergic to original things that have never been seen or heard before.
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Apatheist Account2 2 years ago
I'm still waiting for all the stuff that was supposed to happen by 2000 - moon bases, shiny silver lycra, alien contact, hover cars...
Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
Yeah! I'm still looking for my damm flying car!!
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BlueEyesWhiteDragon 2 years ago
My new goal is to make all of these come true this year. Gonna figure out how to cure a few diseases and increase life expectancy, but I should be able to do that by April. The REAL challenge will be getting guys to curl their hair.
Om 2 years ago
aren't a lot of young guys already curling their hair for that broccoli hairdo?
Load More Replies... Powerful Katrinka 2 years ago
What a great, thought-provoking post! So much better than the never ending stream of AITAs and TikTok idiocy.
Kenny Kulbiski 2 years ago
I didn't see the flying car that was always predicted. I've been waiting for it all my life.
XenoMurph 2 years ago
Taxi drones might be a thing soon, but too noisy and awkward to be used to replace cars.
Load More Replies... Agnes Jekyll 2 years ago
My great aunt was 99 when she died 8 years ago. She came to Canada in a covered wagon--the technological advancements she witnessed in her lifetime are amazing, along with social change.
Jesse Corder 2 years ago
I love how the prediction of a 300 year lifespan is somehow proven after only 100 years.
El Dee 2 years ago
What futurists always forget is our attachment to older, inefficient ways. We LIKE making things by hand, we value home cooked meals and our grandmother's recipe. Newspapers really could have gone out of business but although circulation is tiny now I think there may be a limited market purely because people enjoy the physicality of them. Kinda like how vinyl records have hung on..
Om 2 years ago
and that applies to other things as well, like fashion or music. Most of the "new trends" are just recycled things that were introduced 20-30 years ago. I don't particularly like the 70's or 80's fashion, but I envy that they got to wear extravagant clothes and hairdos, and it was normal, but in my lifetime I've only got to wear "normal" clothes. Like, most people just wear a variant of jeans and shirts, sober colors for the most part. No weird shapes or textures. And with music, I guess the early 2000's were the last time I heard a new kind of sound, after that it's just sounds recycled from previous eras. It's like people are allergic to original things that have never been seen or heard before.
Load More Replies... Apatheist Account2 2 years ago
I'm still waiting for all the stuff that was supposed to happen by 2000 - moon bases, shiny silver lycra, alien contact, hover cars...
Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
Yeah! I'm still looking for my damm flying car!!
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