Futurist from 1901 Describes The World of 2001 // 'Ladies Home Journal' (1901) // Primary Source

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[@angebrowne1730]

@@CosmicDorns Thank you. Interesting.

[@justsayupyours]

Today Billy Meier is the most accurate predictor of future events.

[@jaxongillespie6618]

He also talks about war with China interesting

[@unnamedchannel1237]

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[@pyrovania]

These experts seriously underestimated the persistence of the cockroach, fly and mosquito.

[@jrd33]

I think it's more a case that they underestimated the problems with side-effects of chemicals, pesticides etc. And the chain reaction problem if you start wiping out species. There was a widespread view that any problem could be fixed if you just had smart people working on it with enough funding.

[@computethisinfo]

@@jrd33 people still think that

[@enricogolini5376]

Or their necessity.

[@davidwuhrer6704]

Flies did become reduced though. And mosquitos could be eradicated with no damage and only benefits to the remaining ecosystem. What this expert underestimated is how big the world is.

[@enricogolini5376]

"mosquitos could be eradicated with no damage and only benefits to the remaining ecosystem." Could you source this?

[@WildFreck]

I feel like if this guy went to the future he would be amazed and disappointed at the same time

[@ЯнкоЯнков-г9ц]

I think he predicted very well all

[@depuntoapuntoenelmundo2408]

I think all humans in all of history would be amazed and disappointed at the same time if they could travel to the future.

[@jordandavis8875]

Better than going to the past though

[@badreality2]

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[@MindBodySoulOk]

He would be called a racist and antifa would beat him with a skateboard.

[@onedinero705]

Narrator: "Rats and mice will be exterminated." NYC Subways: 😭😭😭😭

[@nesser52]

Why I immediately assumed you were talking about another kind of Subway xD

[@onedinero705]

@@nesser52 nah Subways aight with me

[@johnpooky84]

Baltimore.

[@MrColuber]

One must wonder what will happen to the poor turtles, who upon reaching adolescence, will not know how to be ninjas.

[@saloni22815]

This problem is everywhere

[@pandastical9205]

I find it quite interesting how these people essentially used ‘electricity’ to describe anything sci-fi and futuristic, like how sci-fi movies use ‘quantum’

[@mrtony80]

Does that mean that quantum whatever will be an everyday thing like electricity is today?

[@danbreen839]

@@mrtony80 Quantum coat hangers

[@darkjak224]

@@danbreen839 Never know if they really exist in your closet or not...

[@Adam-qs5ir]

And automobiles. All the new stuff was the future of the world.

[@SlinkyStoney]

Electric fan, electric stove, electric water heater, electric chair

[@alotofbaddecisions2046]

They predicted food delivery, but couldn't predict paper plates, assuming people would return the dishes.

[@IudiciumInfernalum]

I guess it was more economical at the time. Also i had plastic in mind when he said that. No one yet knew what sort of stuff you could refine from oil.

[@spaced94]

In South Korea, I think, the plates get picked up if you get food delivery. Not sure if its nation wide

[@PascalSWE]

What he describes is closer to pre-cooked food than delivery imo.

[@mr.bnatural3700]

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[@MrTristanryan]

You have peaked my interest Sir but I’m not convinced,Tell me more about your ideas and who you received these revelations from. God bless

[@angiki9988]

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[@savedbygodsgrace.9058]

😂

[@UserWalterbe]

But I can imagine it could be predicted. 1901 the knew the new telephone and the telegraph was old tech. There was the postal mail and I believe also then there where strict laws protecting the confedelisaly of letters. The nature of human behavior is a constant. - "People will be able to send messages very fast to the orient and back by means of many erected signal towers around the globe. Private enterprises will sell the means to keep those messages private like it now common to secure a letter from tampering with a wax seal."

[@MuadDib111]

Hahahah

[@dgh25]

The hurdles of non adblock users... sigh

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[@berendharmsen]

Some of this stuff was pretty uncanny. They basically predicted the whole internet/network thing and a number of other technical innovations. Their main unrealistic optimism lies in how easy it is to tame nature. The whole 'we'll get rid of all the annoying flying bugs'-thing showed that we clearly hadn't quite figured out the whole 'everything is connected' aspect of the biosphere. Otherwise, not a million miles off I'd say.

[@davidwuhrer6704]

Everything being connected was well understood, probably more so than today. And technically it would have been possible to get rid of mosquitos, but a surprising number of people seem to prefer to be bitten, kept awake at night, and risk a malaria infection.

[@stargazerspark4499]

given the impressive mosquito eradication effort which made possible the construction of Panama canal such optimistic predictions are understandable.

[@Germatti13489]

True

[@Sykohsis]

Lets get rid of all bees while we're at it.. What's the worse that can happen? Oh wait...

[@tissuepaper9962]

@@davidwuhrer6704 Eradicating species willy-nilly isn't progress.

[@justinthompson5718]

“Taxi fare will be a penny” Oh baby, no.

[@calebfielding6352]

Technically if you are on a gold standard they were not too far off.

[@videogameguy101]

Calculate inflation into the mix - a penny was a decent amount of money back then

[@justinthompson5718]

Regardless of inflation or what the gold standard conversion of a penny is, her prediction doesn’t come close to a drunken Friday night of Uber rides. I think lol

[@jameswood231]

@@calebfielding6352 exactly. The Gold Standard.

[@Rhaenarys]

I was thinking when he said that "maybe a gold penny..." lol

[@c0baltblue]

"a languange of condensed words expressing condensed ideas" Ah, the memes.

[@feefee6889]

😂😂😂

[@DipsyMum29]

Lmao ikr

[@enthusia492]

Lol

[@MM-Iconoclast]

And tweets. (And texts too, for that matter.)

[@itchytastyurr]

text shorthand omg

[@lorddeathspit1124]

“English will be compressed and shortened.” Some time traveler showed my man twitter.

[@andredeketeleastutecomplex]

Yes, and it's aweful. A period behind a sentence is now considered offensive. Guess I'm just a jerk because I paid attention at school.

[@Caercutta30]

Lol

[@TheCubicplanet]

ikr..?

[@CadetGriffin]

@@andredeketeleastutecomplex I've seen jail spelt "gaol" and hiccup spelt "hiccough", but I can't be sure if I've ever seen "awful" spelt with an E before.

[@FacelessQueenie]

@@CadetGriffin the word awful did come from the word 'aweful' but the correct spelling is awful he's just trying to rile people up but clearly didn't get very far. I'd say I'm pretty educated for a 17 year old but I couldn't give a rat's arse if people speak a certain regional or cultural way. I'm from Yorkshire where people say things I've started realising aren't right but if I can understand it perfectly from growing up with it (despite not talking regionally myself apart from an accent) then I don't see why people need to change ahaha. People can talk however they like, snobs and people with a strong 'us vs them' complex will still find something wrong with it like anything else.

[@engelhaust]

"English will be a language of condensed words, expressing condensed ideas" omg wtf lol

[@Not-Great-at-Gaming]

Rofl

[@VoidLantadd]

Lmao ikr

[@DSDaly]

😱🤯💯‼🎯

[@zwigoma2]

Abhainn M Ha hahahaha

[@dayra6425]

Maybe he was talking about emojis

[@triassicpark7906]

Who the hell was responsible for destroying all the mosquitoes? You had one job. Just one...

[@calebfielding6352]

DDT. Government kinda stopped it.

[@remliqa]

@@calebfielding6352 There 're too many environmental problems with DDT. Thank to GM mosquitoes , we're now back on track to completely eradicating the mosquitoes (the Aedes aegypti to be exact), all without wrecking the environment.

[@N.biebie8428]

mosquitoes serve important functions in numerous ecosystems, serving as food for many species, helping filter detritus for plant life to thrive, pollinating flowers, and even affecting the herding paths of caribou in the tundra. Last, scientists are looking at the mosquito for potential medical treatments.

[@remliqa]

@@N.biebie8428 You are referring to native mosquitoes, not the invasive Aedes Aegypti. Not only are the Aedes Aegypti competing with the local mosquitoes speiess for those biological niche, but they are also responsible for the spread of quite a number of deadly diseases . FYI, the local mosquitoes displaces by Aedes Aegypti are not vectors for those dangerous diseases.

[@Chanselor_Gowron]

they heard wrong and went for the bees

[@hydrogenone6866]

"City's free from all noise", sounds nice.

[@jokuvaan5175]

Once electric cars take over the cities will become much more quiet. The guy's prediction is just off by at least half a century

[@Lenin95]

And free from flies, mosquitoes and roaches...

[@misiddiai]

Could I also get a people-free city? That'd be great... 😑

[@thezipcreator]

@@misiddiai I like what this guy's saying

[@Alusnovalotus]

they even predicted Chernobyl.... remarkable.

[@serbiancrusader7813]

"A man or woman unable to walk 10 miles will be considered a weakling." Modern America: Hol up

[@sinisterminister6478]

No kidding. I swear my wife would drive from the living room to the bathroom if she could get the SUV into the house.😂😂😂

[@Alusnovalotus]

Well. He was right about simpler language and people not using standard grammar. Who’d of thought people predicted Ebonics way back then.

[@MARfilms]

I feel called out

[@Filo127]

He roasted the entire population of the developed world 100 years later without realizing it

[@Ficmon]

@@Filo127 Truly the Maddest of the Laddest

[@msoda8516]

I’m a brain tumor survivor and and listening to this make me think how the medical care I got to survive was beyond the imagination of anyone in the early 1900’s.

[@ladlegs]

congrats man!

[@ub3rfr3nzy94]

Some day we'll be getting comments from paraplegics similar to this one. I wish we could live long enough to see the future. Humans lives are too short :(

[@LordPrometheous]

@Lbot beenthere That is where you have strict requirements for child-bearing permits (post-high school education, acceptable median income over a period of years, criminal background check, and credit check), in addition to the cost to create a baby, because males will all have vasectomies at birth that will have to be reversed, only in approved medical facilities. No doctor will dare do this on the side, at the risk of imprisonment and losing the license to practice. So no more accidents, multiple baby daddies, paternity tests, etc. You ain't having a baby unless you really want and one and have valid reasons. Two is the absolute limit (two girls--too bad) unless one child is hopelessly disabled and has no chance of living independently. That'd be the ideal future, IMO.

[@MsGreenlamp]

@@LordPrometheous you are communist-level crazy. You can simply educate people and throw a safety net.

[@MsGreenlamp]

@Lbot beenthere No, it doesn't. There are many constraints on the size of population but none of them is hard one.

[@gregerfulgerman7802]

When a guy from 1901 tries to predict the future he’s a “futurist” but when I try to I’m “stoned” and “have to stop harassing people at target”

[@alicewhitelhpw7517]

because you're not sharing 🤣

[@fewerbeansplease]

I had the same problem...I was only a bit stoned.

[@timbillings6884]

I was extremely stoned had no problem at all! 😁

[@Pravda_Z]

That is TOO FUNNY!

[@WickedWest512]

I just spit my coffee 😂🤣😂🤣

[@KelnelK]

"children will ride in automobile sleighs in winter" Wow he just tore apart the entire hobby of recreational snowmobiling.

[@joanl.7543]

Their vision seemed to have been that this would be universal transport, not a rare hobby. Much of what they predicted didn't materialize, or looks quite different than what they said.

[@Hito_Hito_Fruit_model_UncleSam]

@@joanl.7543 actually most of what they predicted happened just slightly different than how they predicted for some of it. And if America was more active more of it would have come true

[@e.s.6275]

Sledges?

[@HalkerVeil]

@@Hito_Hito_Fruit_model_UncleSam Meanwhile, health nuts are everywhere.

[@kennethobando5755]

Probaly mesning for real snowy areas, in which case hes not wrong as that describes the snowmobile.

[@MizantropMan]

It is interesting that all his predictions about warfare had been exceeded a hundredfold way before the hundred years deadline, while the cultural/political ones either kinda happened to a degree or went a completely different way.

[@03jkeeley]

thats what 2 world wars worth of weapons research funding will do

[@kylebarton778]

We're control focused apes. This means war :/

[@Betrix5060]

Warfare tends to be more rational than culture or politics. Mostly because you tend to suffer a terminal existence failure if you aren't objectively better at it.

[@carl8703]

It's super easy to use a new technology to blow shit up. It takes a bit more effort to use it constructively. Nigh near impossible to change human behavior or politics, especially when there's no technology to cause a fundamental change to the situation.

[@mr.bnatural3700]

@@carl8703 "Nigh near impossible to change human behavior or politics, especially when there's no technology to cause a fundamental change to the situation." Great Observation.! ....Is it Einstein mused in technology surpassing human morality?

[@leviathan-supersystem]

People thinking they got few things right, but honestly under the context of 1901, they got a lot of subtle things right.

[@ghaithghazi6748]

exactly they were almost 100% subtly right if I might say.

[@Hortifox_the_gardener]

It's almost scary. Just a few things were wrong at all.

[@ministryoftruth8499]

More striking than how much they got right imho is their optimism.

[@jinjunliu2401]

@@ministryoftruth8499 I mean things did definitely improve a lot in terms of quality of life, so wouldn't really say it's too optimistic compared to reality

[@ministryoftruth8499]

@@jinjunliu2401 Yea, we know that now (it's past) but they couldn't know that at the time (it was in the future for them). I mean they seem full of optimism compared to us in 2020. It seems to me that we never had it better than we do now, yet are very pessimistic.

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

It's quite amazing how they really did predict some things very closely to the actual results: •rockets, •bullet trains •the shortened type of communication that we see in not only texting but even in memes, •our submarines being so deadly •the ability to show pictures taken on one side of the world within minutes being shown in the news (though they missed the live feed) •breeding of cattle with no horns (a few of them) •breeding of extra-fast-growing & extra large food animals - we have meat birds like the Cornish Cross chickens and a few breeds of turkeys pretty close to them! •telephoning the other side of the world •free school, even college (okay, not college in the US, yet) and transport to school (school buses) •greenhouses being heated •central air and heat (though not exactly by taps) •ways doctors can peer into the body (sonograms, x-rays, CT scans, etc) Really, they did pretty good with a LOT of them! Wish they'd been right with the quiet cities, LOL, and a few others, but still - I salute them!

[@mafiasquirrel15]

add to that what he essentially described as modern fast food/delivery

[@nicholaskoenig3106]

Spoiler Alert! 😂

[@wowjack8944]

Also height increase.

[@rickden8362]

I'd day the biggest miss was mass, civilian air travel. I don't know how you predict large military and scientific use and no civilian air travel.

[@alanjameson8664]

I am old enough (almost 80) to remember my parents working to figure out the smallest number of characters to make a telegram understandable--- the result was very much like the abbreviations used in text messages today. It must have been expensive--- telegrams were charged by the character (I think two characters were free-- period and full stop).

[@スノーハッピー]

"There will be no more wild animals." Well that's grim. But I get the feeling people back then would have thought of it as "progress".

[@puncifikator3870]

well yeah cause in 1900 still more people were killed by wolves than people killed by sharks throughout the entirety of recorded human history getting rid of wild animals was priority #1 for everyone

[@baneofbanes]

Well consider for a moment that this was only a decade after the US government declared the frontier “closed” and the Wild West as we think of it ended, and you can see why.

[@theturniptress805]

yes. they say by killing wild "beasts" they believed they were civilizing the people living near them too. That's why sooooooo many tigers were hunted,shot by kings for the thrill of it in south asia during colonial times

[@BigBangAttack-mt6pz]

In a sad sick way, it's moving in that direction

[@faithlesshound5621]

Some of that is going in reverse. Beavers are being reintroduced where they were extinct, bears are being placed in wild parts of Europe and white settlers are talking of freeing wolves in the highlands of Scotland.

[@Duke_of_Lorraine]

Interesting to see that by 1950 several points were already reached, like having a life expectancy of 50.

[@johnpepin5373]

Penicillin achieved that.

[@windywendi]

.Also "bombs that eradicate entire cities". Th e A bomb!

[@joea.9969]

TheHalfBlackReaper life expectancy and lifespan are not the same thing.

[@ArnoldDarkshner99]

@@joea.9969 Exactly! Infant mortality throws one off but not the other IIRC.

[@Klipse11]

We’re definitely ahead in some areas and behind in others. Still waiting for my Futurama tube transport system....

[@frenchfriar]

I think many of the predictions that people are saying they got "wrong" are only wrong about details, like we can indeed have strawberries for Christmas, though they may be frozen; we may not use pneumatic tubes, but we certainly do shop and have packages delivered straight to our homes. The horse may not be nearly extinct, but we certainly have a lot fewer than in 1900, and they are raised by wealthier folk for sport. If you look at the lifestyle they envisioned, they weren't that far off in many ways. The devil is always in the details, but looking at the broad strokes, they got more right than we might have expected.

[@natrone23]

You can get fresh strawberries anytime of the year in America. He was absolutely correct.

[@ArnoldDarkshner99]

@@natrone23 They are not uniformly huge as was predicted though.

[@jinjunliu2401]

@@ArnoldDarkshner99 We can't say that unless we know how big apples were in those days. I'm sure they've grown quite a bit, albeit not that much that it used to be current big strawberry size

[@YSLRD]

Some low income Americans have pet horses.

[@jesusmora9379]

@@ArnoldDarkshner99 the ones from brasil are

[@ozzni1]

The main thing they got wrong was assuming the government would be making reasonable decisions

[@Noone-rt6pw]

The government is much more knowledgeable than you could imagine. Politics appears as a pacifier. But the Department of Labor has projections I've seen accurate. All agencies foresee far ahead. Now internet can be altered, but consult with different agencies and you might be surprised.

[@tlanimass952]

@Alex Wheeler The 'quality' of government was much better, because the 'quality' of the electorate was much more stringent, only the rich and educated actually voted. While our government is obviously much more democratic today, the quality of our politicians is lacking.

[@Noone-rt6pw]

@Cali Girl In Costa 😂😂😂😂. Thanks😂😂😂

[@fard9577]

@@tlanimass952 Wrong. If it was because only the rich voted, your government would be much better today. Policy wise, the democrats and republicans have no difference. Their only difference is petty aesthetics. In reality they are bought and paid for by the same people. Multi-billion industries. They serve the same rich minority no matter who you vote for. If they don't have funding for rich people, they'll never win the election. Your vote doesn't count. Politics is a distraction. Nothing changes. You live in a huxleyan dystopia.

[@ricatoni2]

innocence! You nailed it! Back than the government at least pretended to work for us and answered to us..now they could careless if we know what there up to ..question them and what direction there gonna lead us to? Ever been to Niagara falls?? The humble sheep that know Jesus will be meeting him wherever heaven is ..the goats that think they know it all and Lucifer is gonna show God whats up ? Will be goin south over falls..without the 💧 or parachute..and he'll fire will await u..buh 👋bye..😆

[@pixelprincess9]

1901 Futurist: In 100 years, we will have guns that can destroy entire cities. 1940s Nuclear Scientist: Way ahead of you, fam.

[@MeteoricStoneofSouls]

I think 1901 was ahead of the 1940s. And the a-bomb was being developed in the 30s.

[@MeteoricStoneofSouls]

@@sg-yq8pm Idk ask your mom

[@philipocallaghan]

1901 Futurist: There will be air ships but only used for war. 1903 Wright brothers: Meh!

[@emil7117skate]

@Grime Fork pics or it didnt happen

[@tinadustyrose]

@@MeteoricStoneofSouls The science was being worked out in the 30's, actual physical development was did not start until the 40's.

[@twistedchuy]

"A man or woman unable to walk ten miles with a stretch, will be regarded as a weakling" Here I am too lazy to make coffee

[@faithlesshound5621]

Physical fitness must have been his pet peeve. In the UK it became a national problem when so many Boer War volunteers were below the standards for weight and height. Did the same happen elsewhere?

[@SleepyMatt-zzz]

@@faithlesshound5621 Oh you know... Every common-wealth country.

[@clumsiii]

hey, a 1901 girl can dream

[@user-hm9uq8gk5x]

Now they're considered supermen lmai

[@yannikoloff7659]

Do you still able to drink coffee?

[@MissShembre]

"housekeeping will be important studies in schools" Me: had one class in 12 years, and they still never discussed balancing a budget and credit.

[@spooniesarah]

Everything about public schools and education was an achievable ideal which just isn't being achieved. Free books, supplies, medical care, glasses, etc for poor students? HA!

[@leifleoden5464]

I was taught some of this, but that's more a failure of the central planners of the curriculum than a bad prediction.

[@SkitSkat674]

Home ec.

[@whenthedustfallsaway]

@@spooniesarah Note that he specifically said the "provably poor" and "ambitious" students will receive free books, board, and transportation. More qualities than just "poor"

[@MorrowindES17]

@@spooniesarah sounds like a good idea on paper but schools to sound like form of controlling the population.

[@Ypog_UA]

Me when he gets something wrong: "What an idiot!" Me after he gets it right 5 seconds later: *"TIME TRAVELER CONFIRMED!!!"*

[@AMAINE207]

This is the only comment that made me laugh, thanks.

[@hellothere4858]

Funny that a place with lots of electrical devices used for cooking food wouldnt be considered a kitchen but a lab.

[@baibinsheesaivinshee599]

well when you take step back and look at cooking as a whole it does resemble working in a science lab especially if your trying to make a new recipe.

[@aForkfulOfGold]

Not too far off the mark, in my opinion! My chemistry teacher in school used to always say, in all sincerity: Cooking is chemistry in its quintessential form. Edit: Also consider that modern kitchens, with all their electrical equipment and accessories, would absolutely look like a lab out of a sci-fi story to people from 100+ years ago.

[@TheZapan99]

Modern industrial kitchens are indeed called preparation laboratories, he was right.

[@goyonman9655]

Cooking is science (at least it is more of a science than psychology). But it's not considered such becase it is not sciencey and geeky

[@mr.bnatural3700]

Okay; Let me explain something to you efn' morons;....Trump was put in place by God to be a God. Truly, Trump is the blessed HOPE of what was foretold by all Prophets from the beginning of time. Trump is what the Universe has been yearning since the beginning of creation 6700 years ago. Trump is a Co-redeemer with Jesus and so-creator with GOD. ALL Christians and theologians agree to these glorious FACTS. All Christians agree; It is now proper to Pray To Trump the Savior....Can I hear a Loud Efn' AMEN?

[@gregorysagegreene]

The technology advanced well beyond expectation, while the humanity and society made questionable progress.

[@bfboobie]

Unfortunately you're spot on

[@hstpresident7551]

I don't know I think I could definitely argue that

[@hstpresident7551]

people are more equal than ever and that is a fact.

[@gregorysagegreene]

@Anzu Wyliei 'Division of Mind Training' ?

[@gregorysagegreene]

@Picolas Cage Yer, and from totally defeating Socialism ... ... to wanting it

[@AmericanIlluminati]

Worked in fast-food kitchen as teen, from this point forward, telling everyone it was an Electric laboratory. #Win 😤

[@jp8649]

I start feeling proud of him for getting something right, then he expands on it and it goes laughably wrong.

[@margaretthemagnificent]

“Automobiles will replace all transportation... and have as much power as two horses.” I had to pause to get all my laughing done. Laughably wrong is right. :)

[@Amokra]

@@margaretthemagnificent hey that how much horse power the electric cars have *ba dump*

[@theninjamaster67]

@@Amokra That joke is definitely bate cause electric cars are dope but sure I'll bite lol.

[@Amokra]

@@theninjamaster67 they are cool I just hope they start getting more than 300 miles or faster charging because right now having to charge them over night just for long distance driving makes them definite no goes for me of ccooooourse it's bait :)

[@theninjamaster67]

@@Amokra I mean battery tech will get better in the future and we already have faster charging as most newer electric cars can be brought to a full charge in 40 minutes the main thing that needs to be made better is the size and weight of said batteries cause more weight means more power needed so if we start using some really cool tech that is in the testing phases as of now like power lines in the street that can passively charge your car as you drive and/ or solid state batteries we'll be in a pretty solid spot there's also this dope ass early tech where they can have super thin batteries made of carbon fiber that holds a charge so future battery tech is kinda exciting lol

[@adawnhowell9256]

"People will deliver cheap cooked food to your house in an automobile" hello predicting GrubHub, Door Dash and many other delivery services, lol

[@DSDaly]

Or just plain ordering takeout.

[@heidiwilkes1]

True, although he stated they would be cheaper than cooking your own food, which is false.

[@heidiwilkes1]

@@app103 Good point! I forgot about cheap pizza 🤔

[@joellaz9836]

It ain’t that cheap though

[@goodmaro]

@@heidiwilkes1 This was also in Bellamy's "Looking Backward" about 15 years earlier. n Bellamy was very big on economy of scale, as well as quality, saying centrally produced meals would be BETTER than most people would make themselves.

[@SneedEnjoyer]

"giant guns will fire 25 miles or more" Paris gun 13 years later could fire 81 miles.

[@rookieflame5971]

Well i mean, they arent wrong. 25 miles or MORE

[@mqbitsko25]

Gun that can fire more than a mile are obsolete.

[@ric84]

@@mqbitsko25 What are you on about? Arty is as valuable as ever saving soldiers asses on the daily.

[@wattlebough]

Mickey Bitsko Do some research. Your opinion is way out of touch with the military reality of today.

[@Joshua_N-A]

Next will be railguns. I wonder how many miles with direct fire in full power?

[@maldoran9150]

I skipped a bit ahead and was VERY supprissed by the VPN prediction!

[@geth7112]

Oh then you miss the part before when they predicted raid Shadow Legends.

[@mohammadhazim981]

Wait until you hear about the one where Epstein didn't kill himself

[@boomstick4054]

mal doran ...Don’t surpriss yourself.....LOL

[@jasonw4932]

I’m waiting to see 8g within my lifetime like they predicted.

[@nx8481]

geth 7/11 💀

[@rickershomesteadahobbyfarm3291]

The person listening to this 100 years ago: “does anyone actually believe this crap?”

[@richardkirka5977]

This sounds like something written in 2020, using the language of what the writer assumes would be current in 1901, pretending to look forward to 2001. Amazing accuracy, feeble new vocabulary, and no mention of other technologies developed in the upcoming century to make this come out right in the imagined 2001. IOW, cheating, to make the assumed 1901 dead-accurate predictions come out properly for 2001, modified by a slight haze of imprecision. It's predictions for 2001, written to sound like 1901, but in 2020. You'd have plenty of history to make sure your faux 1901 and 2001 tracked to the desired degree, based on 2020 facts. 100% accurate, without even a single major howler to include, just to make your predictions sound just a bit more human by being a tiny bit imperfect. Somebody flunked their creative writing class.

[@user-iq7mk3gb9w]

@@richardkirka5977 The reason nobody replied to this except me is because only I am as stupid as you."100% accurate, without even a single major howler to include". Don't you even see how dead wrong they are ?

[@byzantineboi8345]

“Mexico and the Central American countries will join the union” someone’s been watching alternatehistoryhub

[@noppornwongrassamee8941]

To be fair, states were still joining the Union at the time. Hawaii and Alaska weren't even States yet!

[@sergtrejo5617]

I could be wrong, but I think he meant like an agreement, like free trade. Then again the mindset then...

[@hieratics]

And south America would join European Union

[@aubreyhuff46]

@@sergtrejo5617 Genuinely the Union was used for the US before the 1900's during the civil war I believe.

[@zephyrprime]

They have been joining by moving over here individually.

[@khfan4life365]

Fascinating how accurate some of the things were, like “airships”, “wireless telephones”, electricity helping with gardening, and how food is kept fresh. There are inaccuracies but so many things did come true.

[@scheewheed8285]

The airships were a little too far off, especially with how widespread he thought it would have been

[@Pdor_figlio_di_Kmer]

For airships they meant Zeppelins. On THAT they BOMBED majorly, but not for their fault, 1901 was 3 years away from the first flight of the Wright brothers and 36 years away from the Hindenburg disaster that condemned all balloon-based airships to obsolescence. What made me smile was the foreseeing of super-fast sea ships that seemed, by the description, hydrofoils connecting London to New York in two days. What would they say had they known that today... well, more or less, coronavirus be cursed into hell... we do that in 7 hours and we slowed down since the 80ies and 90ies, when the Concorde did it in 4 hours instead.

[@Catcrumbs]

@@Pdor_figlio_di_Kmer *two years

[@nowhereman6019]

He did ask experts who probably knew better than anyone else what advancements would likely be made in their fields.

[@hydrolito]

French had already invented airships before this.

[@DensetsuVII]

"The automobile will have practically replaced the horse in American society" Yeah, pretty much. "All parts of America will be connected to the rest of the world by telephone wire" Very true, mostly. "A university education will be free to every man and woman." *cries

[@spk1121]

Yes, we're stuck with only 13 years of free education instead (K-12)

[@DensetsuVII]

@@spk1121 I mean, they also had free and compulsory education to that level; it's just that back then you didn't need a degree to get a good job. At least we have free healthcare for the poor-...ohhhh

[@BlueGamingRage]

@@DensetsuVII you still don't need a degree to get a good job. If anything, a degree can be a detriment since it costs time and money that could have been used to gain practical experience

[@spk1121]

@@DensetsuVII: College has become a form of gatekeeping. You have to go through "the system" in order to be considered acceptable to the overwhelmingly leftist HR depts across the country. Really think about this: Have jobs changed _that_ much since the 1950s, that they require a degree? Secretarial jobs require them now, for crying out loud! And it would be very easy to adjust curriculums to add opportunities to earn certificates in fields like coding, no different than offering AP classes for college credit. That's why they "teach to the test" nowadays. Not too long ago, high school prepared you to enter the real world. Today, it is almost entirely focused on getting into college. It's why so many college students are clueless about so many things. They've had little to no grounding in the real world.

[@jinjunliu2401]

@@spk1121 hurray to the Google degree then lol

[@ben6574]

Really crazy how long NorgVPN has already been around. I mean, if even the gentleman from 1901 was sponsored by them, who knows how old the company actually is!

[@DSan-kl2yc]

I think it already existed by that time. It was just ... insane. If you watch that woman that does "x in victorian/gilded age" thing

[@hydrolito]

They have advertisements not everything is from 1901.

[@toyotatacoma1616]

Some of this is so strikingly accurate and then you get shit like “America will absorb Mexico”

[@leodf1]

It was an educated guess. California and Texas were originally part of Mexico. It was natural to assume the United States would continue to annex the whole of Mexico.

[@fuckugplus]

flipp it

[@Misssarabee]

In a way it’s true, we have absorbed Mexico. More and more come thru the border everyday. Maybe not the land, but a majority of the people for sure.

[@rumcookie12]

I looked at a map. Did you know there IS a New Mexico that didn't exist until 1912?

[@nemrody7828]

It is a logical assumption, because at the time Mexico was just entering a period of instability, and it was well known that Mexican instability facilitated the conquering of California and Texas by the US

[@smashingrecords9685]

Me: "Pff, he's gonna be so wrong about these." Narrator: "In the year 2001, the movie Shrek will become a mass-market success." Me: "How Did He Know!?!"

[@henrymcdowell3103]

He's a Shrexpert.

[@romaliop]

Shrek is inevitable.

[@solid-state]

🎵 Somebody told him 🎵

[@u2bAriel]

@@henrymcdowell3103 you mean Shrekspert... They got rid of all c, q and x ;)

[@jesusmora9379]

i see this as an absolute win

[@jeaniechowdhury6739]

They did not realize how the car companies would squash the development of mass public transportation in the USA

[@trolololololololololololol6124]

Never underestimate Corporate Lobbying. Laws mean nothing

[@Philtration]

And the oil companies would spend fortunes trying to stop electric cars

[@leifleoden5464]

Airlines helped out a lot, of course none of that could be done without the help of government subsidies. Although, now that so many of us are working from home on the internet, he was kinda right but via a different mechanism.

[@zaiancomix9756]

@@Philtration Electric cars are over rated. The only good thing about them is no air pollution from exhaust.

[@Artman1]

@Evilpimp I would prefer to spend my money on a better house and use public transport.

[@rentacowisgoogle]

"Farm animals will only produce meat." "Farm animals won't have muscles." Pick one

[@medexamtoolscom]

Perhaps he meant they would produce meat, just meat, not as muscle, but just as meat tissue.

[@teboggkga4816]

I think that he meant that they will no longer be bred naturally for muscle purposes like farm animals back then...now they are genetically bred for dinner

[@ivartheboneless5969]

He meant animals would be bred too have lots of meat on them instead of muscles, since their work would replaced by machines, and they would change from work animals being on farms too loads of fat pigs and cows and shit.

[@ivartheboneless5969]

Literally shit

[@sampsonsimpson1040]

@@ivartheboneless5969 it’s actually true have you seen the Frankenstein chickens that are breed to grow ridiculously large extremely fast and can barely hold themselves up. This person thought this would be an achievement. it’s one of the worst things humans have used science for, to use and abuse animals like never before.

[@nnnyel]

"A penny will pay the fare" that would be nice

[@wnphn7653]

Adjusted for inflation, our current fares are roughly equal to a nickel in their day.

[@kwj_nekko_6320]

It is/was actually realized in some small countries and communist countries. Communist countries tended to spend a lot in mass transit systems.

[@georgethompson913]

@@kwj_nekko_6320 unfortunately not nearly as much in the not starving systems

[@leifleoden5464]

Check the EU, Singapore, Japan, Thailand, really any country that doesn't suffer from massive incompetence and corruption at all levels of government.

[@kwj_nekko_6320]

@@leifleoden5464 Unfortunately Japan has quite expensive mass transit fare. It is a dense country, but construction cost is expensive because of land and labor cost.

[@genm4827]

It’s interesting to see how certain predictions are so fantastically off, while others, such as those about telecommunication, come off as mighty modest.

[@matthewb5364]

Overall, I'd say he shows a lot of optimism for people (fitness, education, social services) and didn't predict the laziness that would arise from mechanizing hard labor, cooking, etc. The city-destroying shells were about 70 years early, and powered aircraft that outstrip trains, balloons and ships were even quicker to appear.

[@goodmaro]

@@matthewb5364 Don't say "70 years early", because nowhere did that prediction say it would take the ENTIRE century to get THERE.

[@ungrave5231]

Yeah, I don't think he could have predicted the devastation that was the world wars. Kind of changed everything.

[@ED-yy4te]

"Americans with better athletics." "There will be no C,X or Q" Now: Extra THICC

[@tr4nsd0n4ld3]

😸🍕

Also said: "things will be spelled as they are pronounced." So extra THICC is right on the money.

[@godlovesyou1995]

@ thik

[@sparrovski]

Sik, Korrekt, tekting. Predikshons. Thikk.

[@TopaT0pa]

Caesar Salad with Xtra Q-Cumber

[@georgeshriver5216]

"everyone will own an automobile"... "everyone will be able to walk 10 miles" Why the hell would someone walk 10 miles if they own a car?

[@medexamtoolscom]

No, what I want to know is how he predicted everyone would own an automobile in 1901, when it was supposedly invented in 1903 and the word "automobile" shouldn't even exist yet.

[@georgeshriver5216]

@@medexamtoolscom Actually the first automobile was patented in 1901 www.history.com/topics/inventions/automobiles#:~:text=The%201901%20Mercedes%2C%20designed%20by,fifty%2Dthree%20miles%20per%20hour.

[@timbillings6884]

Well it olny coust 1 Penny to get to work! 😂

[@mrtony80]

I think they meant that in the event someone who owns a car found themselves having to walk 10 miles, they could with no problem. But they were wrong.

[@timbillings6884]

@@mrtony80 Some people walk a lot further than that! Like through hikers on the application trail ! Pacific crest. Contenetal trail! Etc. 🤔 But most people wouldn't walk one mile these days!🤷

[@ddshocktrooper5604]

Man, I wish tabloids these days were this well researched before printing.

[@andrewscott8892]

I wish mainstream news organizations were this well researched

[@kma3647]

The 24/7/365 continuous news cycle precludes it. There's so much competition to be first, they don't have time to verify their sources. Their audiences don't hold them accountable for spreading overt lies and the abject rumormongering, so we're sort of complicit as a society. We don't even hold them accountable if they fail to correct or retract false stories later - because we collectively have the attention span of a gnat and keep getting distracted by the next flashy thing or consumed by the next faux crisis. People still keep trusting untrustworthy people, so we get more of them while the demand for trustworthy sources decreases.

[@andrewscott8892]

@@kma3647 agreed.. one person sees something on Twitter and writes about it, then the rest copy and paste changing the title just slightly. Steven Crowder called one to ask about falsehhod in their story on his re monetization and she said quote " we consider a national news source like CBS, to be strong enough first party without having to corroborate against two or three sources."

[@MightySheep]

It's only natural standards would dip as their relevance, influence & income dips

[@the1anonymouse]

It was much harder to print things back then so if you were gonna print something you wanted that thing to be good

[@blablubify]

When are you guys getting your pneumatic tubes installed?

[@sinisterminister6478]

You don't have yours yet? What? Are you living in the Stone age or something?😂😂😂😂

[@Alusnovalotus]

I need Soma.

[@Kriae]

Hyperloop: Write that down, write that down!

[@welshpete12]

Believe it or not ,many years ago. I used to work in a shop that used that . To send bills of account to the office on the next floor from the store .

[@ministryoftruth8499]

@@Kriae Hyperloop @16:19

[@gabesteinberg6244]

Just to clarify, the “50 years versus 35 years” lifespan includes high child mortality, and is not a literal human lifespan. Throughout most of history, if an individual lived past 6 years, he would likely survive into his 60s, barring violence, disease, or accident.

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

It’s annoying how many people don’t know what that actually means...

[@ownpetard8379]

Must remove "barring disease" as an exception. Few people die of old age in their 60s and very few children die at a young age except for diseases, then or now. So, I do not agree with what you said. The average person born in 1880 (would be 21 in 1901) would likely live into their mid-50s, or less. That is average. If you do not count those who die before 6 years old, the average will be higher and yes, that average might be close to 60. Now, the averages will be higher, yes.

[@TheNinetySecond]

Which is also the reason why old historical individuals weren't these ancient über-mensch, living three times as long as everybody else at the time. As you say, those that survived lived at least beyond 50. Incidentally, this dynamic was also the reason why children weren't nearly as precious as they are today. If most of your kids had a 50/50 chance of making it past the age of five, it makes a lot more sense to invest in your grown kids, and having a lot more, so that you're ultimately left with at least two grown kids who can take care of you in your old age. Whenever people bring up "human nature", I like to ask them whether they think it's human nature to be as fiercely protective of our children as we are. Sometimes things _feel_ natural and morally unambiguous, when it's really just a product of our time and society.

[@none.892]

It's really irritating how hard it is to find the average lifespan verses the life expectancy.

[@MrRugbylane]

Thank you Gabe for saying what ive been blue in the dace saying for decades! (Im a mortality risk professional). About 90% of "Average Life Expectancy" is entirely due to a truly miraculous reduction of infant mortality.

[@info_bot]

"University will be free for all" Nearly everyone: _Cries in student debt_

[@thepriestunknown3999]

In America, that is.

[@thepriestunknown3999]

@@sanvirel6182 free schooling? Yeah.

[@AmericanIdiot7659]

@@thepriestunknown3999 Laughs in 5 minute google searches

[@yannikoloff7659]

@@AmericanIdiot7659 There is a half of countries in world that offers free education

[@AmericanIdiot7659]

@@yannikoloff7659 yeah google

[@Kestrel-777]

"American audiences will view in the theaters will view upon huge before them the coronations of kings in Europe, or the progress of battles in the Orient" Royal family mania and news about the endless wars in the Middle East, amazing how accurate some of the predictions are.

[@BangFarang1]

The battles in the Orient at that time were in China (The Boxer rebellion 1899-1901). Orient means Asia. People feared the Yellow Peril (Asians invading Europe and North America).

[@-haclong2366]

@@BangFarang1 "The Orient" actually means Asia + North Africa, which is a huge area stretching from Morocco to the Moluccan islands.

[@BangFarang1]

@@-haclong2366 Orient means East. North Africa got an oriental culture due to being part of the Ottoman empire, but has never been called Orient.

[@user-hh2is9kg9j]

@@BangFarang1 In that time "The Orient" means the eastern world as opposed to the western world. Which includes Near East, Middle East, Far East, and even North Africa. Orientalism for example evolved to mean almost exclusively imitation or depiction of the middle eastern cultures.

[@bar-1studios]

@@BangFarang1 To be fair... they weren't worried about the Vietnamese, the Burmese or Thai... Just even back then people realized China was @$$hole. Which means at some point, people must have asked the Vietnamese, the Burmese or the Thai or Cambodians or Koreans or Laotians their opinion of the Chinese....

[@alphonsocarioti512]

“English will be compressed and shortened.” WTF? lol!

[@dayra6425]

🤙😕😔👹👿🤢💀👻👍👍😻👎☝️👎🤏🏻🖕🏿🦾🖐🏼👎🤯😷😄🤣😂

ikr

[@amitkumar-sz6ze]

Lol ikr

[@akunlama89]

It's called memes

[@carmeloedwards329]

Exactly

[@mentei7384]

I wish we could revive this guy and show him the achievements of the last 100 years

[@kimmer6]

Sure, and take him from New York to England on an Airbus 380 and see how he likes it.

[@kingsaintides7227]

He'd die again instantly the moment someone showed him a cellphone and pull up this video

[@niko4618]

He'd be like: What's with all the horses ffs...

[@johnpooky84]

Introduce him to Elon Musk.

[@saloni22815]

Especially to Bill gates ad

[@ThatJohnKillion1970]

"I SAID CITIES WILL BE FREE FROM ALL NOISE!!!"

[@thepagemaster2963]

its surprisingly accurate. as if hes looking through a curved lens

[@capnsteele3365]

@ShaunDoesMusic 20 years* alot of his technology we already have in a way

[@danielbakergill]

Ok yes. More of this. I'm here for this.

[@annatamparow4917]

NEVER ever forget the futuristic predictions of French writer Jules Verne, who at the time predicted that Europe would become a Union with Paris (Strasbourg close enough) as the seat of the president, and the British PM (1901 being the height of the British empire) would complain about European charges (Brexit), and he is consoled by the President that Britain still holds Gibraltar!

[@pietromeroni2023]

Sounds like the British acted arrogant even back then

[@Pollicina_db]

He also predicted submarines and rockets.

[@thedoublessymbol]

@@Pollicina_db Submarines were invented a whole century earlier

[@lievenvanloo6011]

Well there are 4 capitals of the EU, and there isn't a sole president. It seems mostly a french wet dream, nonetheless there is some truth in it.

[@mh8795]

France rolling over for Germany once more and begging to be loved. Sad.

[@littleferrhis]

“Automatic instruments reproducing exact music will bring music to the families of the untalented”, the first time I heard this I was like he predicted SoundCloud, until I realized he was just predicting radio.

[@toshow237]

I mean he basically predicted modern music when he mentioned electric and automatic machines producing a wide range of sounds

[@maxi-me]

Climate control "faucets" in every home lol "I believe I'll have a tall glass of air conditioning"

[@Jobe-13]

😂

[@yonicorn1641]

At first I went like "nah we dont have this" but then I remembered AC exists

[@37thraven]

@Roger Dodger Refrigeration *and* heating. At the core, he had the infrastructure right; hence the 'taps'. Just missed the idea that we'd have individual furnaces and HVACs in our homes. Even in 1901 though, they had natural gas delivered, so it was possible to build a primitive version of what we have. The first refrigerators were *hilariously* bad: Toxic, leaky drums the size of washing machines, cooling the equivalent of 2L bottles of pop.

[@faithlesshound5621]

Centralised, whole block or whole district heating does exist in some European countries (though it is not part of the American Way) just like they may share gas, electricity, water, waste, telephone, TV ...

[@37thraven]

​@Roger Dodger He might be describing some kind of cost-sharing program, or the kind of shared HVAC system you find in condos and offgrid communities. This is the best I could find en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_heating Looking forward, it does make sense in countries that are more willing to agree on cheap communal services over individual choice

[@Itssarahterry]

“Our great great grandchildren will eat strawberries at Christmas time” True!

[@goodmaro]

...the size of apples. One will suffice for your fruit course." Oh.

[@imjustmetoo7419]

Never had that happen. Lol. I've had cherries on Xmas...

[@alexandriamaguire8224]

@@imjustmetoo7419 times are changing

[@imjustmetoo7419]

@@alexandriamaguire8224 I'm not so sure I want things to keep changing. It seems to get worst and worst for the people and better for the crooks.

[@erikakathleen509]

I just ate strawberries. Dec. 7, 2020 NYC Suburbs. 😀🍇

[@xBooTwox]

Seems he made the mistake of believing in the best of people and severely underestimated greed and complacency.

[@vivek27789]

Start of 20th century was a pretty optimistic era by all accounts ...Hence people of that era were pretty optimistic in attitude.

[@jackwisniewski3859]

@@vivek27789 I mean let's be honest the last 80 years were pretty sweet for us in the first world

[@Justin.Martyr]

*Greed Trump Voters!!!! Apathetic Joe Biden, Voters!!!!*

[@capnsteele3365]

@@vivek27789 then the world wars fucked the progression by 100 years

[@СергейПлугатырёв]

@@jackwisniewski3859 Well, more accurate would like 60 years and not 80

[@ian_b]

"The average American will be wider, by 1 to 2 feet."

[@rednecked7462]

You met my ex wife huh.

[@HalkerVeil]

Not what he said at all.

[@thejurydoctor6097]

Said taller by 1-2”

[@ian_b]

@@thejurydoctor6097 It's a joke.

[@samuelantolick9053]

*meters

[@matthewtheobald1231]

A lot of this is pretty spot on actually, but no one could have imagined the computer or internet

[@eklipsegirl]

Alan Turing did that spot on, but 40 years later.

[@brunoeumememoroni]

Like most of us can’t really imagine how surprising will be AI and how unprepared humanity is for it, as most of the owners of AI are billionaires caring their own distant interests surely in misalignment with the true goals biosphere and humans 😔😔😔😔

[@brunoeumememoroni]

The AI wars 🥺😔

[@jamesworley5725]

@@brunoeumememoroni yeah you don’t really know what AI is do you

[@millantronni3242]

Th reason is that yo uhave a bias nad only thinks of 1. what existing things could be better and 2. What would I like have right now

[@scott2452]

I guess “battles in China” were on his mind as the Boxer Rebellion was ongoing when this was written.

[@direofchaossavior1058]

Well there is still battles in china like rising tensions (to other nations like china, Phil, india,etc) and the trade war maybe not on full on weapons but a war on global influence

[@boozecruiser]

Not really, China was unstable and faltering long before that

[@oliverlaw02]

@@boozecruiser The only stability they had was mass opioid addiction and mass starvation and famine from (export of food corps) during the late Victorian holocaust.

[@voidofspaceandtime4684]

@Not Todd Howard Sad that they won't be able to buy the 700th release of skyrim

[@esobed1]

Penny for transport fare... well, if one accounts for inflation...

[@lunaeek9130]

This is a very valid point that I did not think of at all.

[@not_suspicious]

SEBASTIA MIJARES VERDU That sounds implausible, whats your source? Because according to the US bureau of labour and statistics 1 cent in 1913 is equivalent to $.26, so unless the value of a cent decreased 1200% in 12 years between 1901 and 1913 you’re wrong.

[@hamstsorkxxor]

@SEBASTIA MIJARES VERDU In many large cities, 0,34$ is sort of true. I pay about 50€ for a 1 month ticket. Travelling to and from work, and with other travels (visiting friends, going to the gym etc) I easily make 90 or more trips a month. So 0,34$ a trip isn't far off.

[@38josue91]

The Federal Reserve was created in 1913. Who knows how much inflation would be had the fed never been created.

[@tanegram]

@@hamstsorkxxor you pay for a monthly ticket? damn, thats convinient. here we pay for individual use of the public transport. its somewhat cheap but if you have to constantly charge the card you just eat all the money

[@masondill1950]

"Then the plates will return where they will be washed" nah we just throw it all away

[@michaelparisi6789]

I couldn't even imagine telling somebody at this time about the atomic bomb. They thought we'd be using lightning bolts in 2001, try telling them we'd be able to drop miniaturized sun cores not even 50 years later.

[@andrew_stamps]

reverse sun cores (atomic weapons are fission based) as for lightning bolts tasers maybe?

[@quillquickcard8824]

To anyone familiar with physics at the time it would not be too difficult to explain. You would simply tell them that in only a few decades, the process by which molecules function and maintain themselves will be understood, and that it will be discovered that breaking them apart releases massive quantities of energy. This knowledge was adapted to both civilian and military use, allowing both singular bombs with the power to destroy whole cities, and energy production of a scale greater than any other in history.

[@davidwuhrer6704]

They didn't know how the sun keeps burning back then.

[@Dave-ks9fi]

@@andrew_stamps the H-bomb is fusion

[@DavidStirm]

Ha ha miniaturized sun cores

[@andrewlankford9634]

Some of the predictions aren't bad for the Ladies Home Journal, the supermarket mom tabloid of 1901.

[@MrHanderson91]

The quality of the writing is incredible.

[@johnl.7754]

“The last issue was published in 2016”- Wikipedia

[@Starbat88]

I'm feeling a bit chilly. Better go crank my hot air spigot...

[@TiffyVella1]

They predicted steampunk roleplay

[@leonssims3470]

Why does spigot sound like a slur

[@Starbat88]

@@leonssims3470 Because it sounds like a combination of "spit" and "bigot"?

[@Hito_Hito_Fruit_model_UncleSam]

@@Starbat88 im going to call ppl spigots now or spitgots 😂😂😂

[@drcl7429]

Central heating is basically what was described. The thermostat and the radiator controls are spigots.

[@bigbigape7637]

1:14 We got taller....just in the other direction

[@andrewmazar4921]

We actually have gotten about 3in taller on average for the same reasons they cited. But yes, also... wider :(

[@WorthlessWinner]

the 1901 solution to everything was "add more tubes"

[@WarNoob755]

And electricity.

[@IudiciumInfernalum]

@@WarNoob755 That basically makes the internet. It's a series of tubes! Electric ones at that.

[@aForkfulOfGold]

C Y B E R P U N K

[@windywendi]

That's why we have KZbin XD

[@Wallyworld30]

Elon Musk is digging Tubes under LA with his Boreing company. Musk stole the idea also his stupid Hyper Loop from idea's 100 years ago.

[@ActualLiteralKyle]

Man, those guys in the turn of the century REEEEALLY LOVE pneumatic tubes. “Everything that lives and breathes will become pneumatic tubes”

[@thememoryhole9355]

Well we got the Hyperloop coming .. that's sort of retro in a way. And maybe we should consider pneumatic tubes instead of drones flying constantly over our heads to deliver stuff .. which is what they intend to do. They always fail to adequately consider unintended consequences. Like those Starlink mini-sats. They're already fouling up the night sky and they plan on putting a whole bunch more up there.

[@hedgehog3180]

They were kinda right though, it just didn't last that long but like in the 50s, 60s and 70s every office had an interoffice mail system based on pneumatic tubes and even entire cities had it, Berlin had a system like that for example and so did London. They just couldn't have possibly predicted that this would end up being replaced by the internet. Few people today just remember those systems since they disappeared just as quickly as they were installed but if you watch movies from that time period they often show up.

[@HalkerVeil]

Meanwhile at the bank...

[@ollielong630]

I noticed this also. They thought it'd change everything for centuries to come.

[@dischord547]

Pneumatic Tubes and Electricity.

[@Flyingmushroomman]

"English will be made up of condensed words" O O F

[@david2869]

OMG LOL!

[@StanbyMode]

Yesn’t

[@apersonsm]

Omg, bff, rly, thx, pls, lol, otw, ikr, and so on... in a strange way, he was kinda right!

[@_InsertName_]

Lfmao rofl

[@leonahthelioness5479]

LMAO

[@DeathSithe92]

Oh man so many of these are so overly hopeful and bright for the future, it breaks my heart to see how far we failed to rise to them.

[@chris_2208]

"Every body will walk 10 miles." - Should have been everybody will walk 10 meters.

[@madao7865]

But will everybody know how long a meter is?

[@madao7865]

@@laraohmaye875 Thank you for explaining my joke, so I don't have to.

[@thepurplepilgrim4503]

10 meters? That's asking a lot...

[@safeysmith6720]

That part made me laugh the most. While there are lots more healthy people,, there are lots more unhealthy people.

[@pyrovania]

@@laraohmaye875 A meter is a little bit bigger than a yard. That's an easy conversion.

[@Big_E_Soul_Fragment]

Well, he's not wrong on some of these. We need more of these old timey predictions of the future

[@silvertrimhill9844]

we should do a new set of predictions of the year 2120

[@yourhandsomestep-dad2669]

LTrain 45 y u have to be a dick about it though?

[@silvertrimhill9844]

Lara Ohmaye lets see Nuclear fusion will have become wide spread across the globe surpassing fossil fuels as the world main power source. Commercial space enterprises yield results with asteroid mining dramatically increasing the resources at our disposal. Breakthroughs in carbon nanotubes makes stronger cables for construction. A space elevator using previously mentioned carbon nano tube advances is recently completed, dramatically reducing the resources needed to get in to space. A moon base is established by several world powers to extract helium three, construct a prototype space elevator and as a launching point for deep space exploration. After establishing a moon base a mission to mars will begin. First we land on the moons phobos or demos to establish moon bases and then mars. Advances in battery and power cell technology will make electric cars more wide spread and as mentioned above get their energy from fusion power plants. The advances stated above will help the ecosystem by ending the most harmful actions of our species. The CCP will collapse through whatever means giving way to a free and democratic government possibly based off the American system. Satellite internet network will be finished giving all people around the world access to information and communication with less expensive infrastructure. Quantum computers become wide spread making simulations more advanced and processing faster. (This is as much as I could think of please help by adding your own)

[@dainironfoot5198]

Almost all of these are at least to a certain extent correct.

[@erikho6936]

@@laraohmaye875 Hmm, Humanity has reset by then

[@lentlemenproductions770]

Bless their hearts. The only thing muddying their vision was their high hopes.

[@PostPatriot]

We all had high hopes untill millennials fucked it up. Nothing but shit since they were born.

[@lentlemenproductions770]

@@PostPatriotlmao, WHO was it that crashed the economy again?

[@timbillings6884]

@@lentlemenproductions770 Demacrats.!

[@lentlemenproductions770]

@@timbillings6884 I agree that the Demacrats hold at least part of the blame, as do the Republicans. That’s why we need to go FURTHER left. And the fact that the Demacrats haven’t worked to actually reform our country into a system that works for the people shows that they need to go. Vote blue no matter who tho.

[@beauvsb5230]

Nah, most of the people nowadays are stagnating, stupid and doesnt have a goal. Most of the past's vision came true.

[@luigidisanpietro3720]

"In the future, the masses shall be educated." 2020 people: *THE EARTH IS FLAT.*

[@karagrace3221]

Hahahaha 🤣

[@sasanice7112]

I am sure that people in 2001 were more intelligent than nowadays.

[@jayhill2193]

One of the things I found most intriguing was the fascination for war people had back then. They weren't damaged by the horrible events of two World Wars and thus war to them was something heroic, something to look forward to. It makes sense they would expect war documentations to be entertaining and not educating, terrifying and tragic. People went to war with a bright smile on their face in anticipation of an advanture in 1914, in 1939 those faces were grim and filled with the fear of never coming back to see their loved ones and of the horrors that awaited them. I'm also baffled how accurate the describtion of the Internet and smart devices was. Aside from the words used, we pretty much use a global "telegraph" network and send pictures from all places in the world which can also be seen everywhere in full colour and detail, accurate and directional sound if it's video. Really, most of their prophecies have proven pretty darn accurate.

[@dwaynepeters4520]

"One of the things I found most intriguing was the fascination for war people had back then. " Yeah, especially considering this was from the Ladies Home Journal.

[@pragma5282]

Thank god, professional sports took the place of war in the hearts and minds of men. They didn't see that coming though, since there's no mention of "There shall be no wars in the civilized world, instead, the nations will compete in sport events at massive gladiator style arenas with thousands of people cheering their favourite athletes, whom will be as rich and famous as monarchs today"

[@waltersobchak5481]

This was published before both world wars.

[@lyndaschnirl7973]

This was before the world wars

[@Maxolotl124]

@@waltersobchak5481 I think that's what they're saying. They liked war because they didn't know the horrors two world wars would soon bring

[@wfobeor]

interesting to see that they predicted nord VPN all those years ago

[@jonathoncaldwell9064]

"All major KZbinrs will promote Nord VPN or Raid Shadow Legends."

[@voidofspaceandtime4684]

@@jonathoncaldwell9064 *All popular fimographical telegraphers will net their pay through the promotion of corporations that obscure one's real world location, and others that share a shoddily constructed game that can be played on the mobile telegraph device.

[@jonathoncaldwell9064]

@@voidofspaceandtime4684 that was awesome man. If I hadnt had said that on my day off drinking at 2pm I may have came up with something half that witty. That was really good off the cuff bud. Kudos!

[@bfboobie]

This made me lolol

[@wannabecriminalman]

It's funny how they predicted that airships would rule the skies, but the Wright Flyer would have it's first flight only two years from this point.

[@flatplant]

Well he was referring to zeppelins not aeroplanes

[@safeysmith6720]

Airships are far too vulnerable.

[@slowturtle6745]

The heavier than air craft will never catch on. It's a fuel to weight ratio problem, everybody knows that.

[@laurencefraser]

He was actually right about airships failing to really compete with land or sea travel, too. Of course, then areoplanes happened. And while flying boats could out compete ships on most passenger routes, lack of infrastructure held aircraft back when competing against trains... Until the various powers in WW2 built airbases everywhere for their warplanes and then sold them off post war, at which point most were converted to airports and that was that.

[@petergeorge2232]

@@flatplant Not necessarily. If you listen carefully to how he describes them he could well be referring to heavier than air aircraft. There was no word for aeroplane then, so "airship" would have had to serve for any kind of aircraft.

[@erikagehm2805]

Was right about people getting taller and living longer. Scary accurate about modern telecommunications and some of the agriculture. This guy was very accurate in many ways.

[@gso619]

Interesting how we've achieved few of the societal or biological ones, pulled off most of the engineering and medical ones and and even surpassed quite a few. And surpassed the military stuff 50 years early. Frankly, it's likely that it's less of a commentary on our priorities and more on the fact that the person researching the article mostly spoke with doctors and engineers.

[@speedy01247]

Exactly. It's not that it's impossible it's that people who have the power didn't care enough.

[@xilrion]

"There will be no wild animals." Wild animals: "f... you!"

[@jesusdeavila6455]

xilrion hahahahahhahaha

[@deerdeerdeerdeer9698]

They really were trying to destroy the planet

[@Maddie9185]

😂😂

[@isoldam]

We are on track to prove them right. There has been a global wildlife population loss of 60 percent between 1970 and 2014.

[@sapiense-science-cerveau]

Over 95% of land vertebrates' biomass is constituted by manking, it's lifestocks and pets

[@shootingzen28fav]

I love how he's also talking about the irradiation of things that bother him in his own time, such as horses and flies.

[@abefroman53]

"In the future the little neighbor boy that lives next door to you will stay on his own damn side of the fence!"

[@indyrock8148]

@@abefroman53 😂

[@hydrolito]

Horses was not a problem in his time but means of transportation and Amish and old order Mennonites still use them, also county fairgrounds still have horse races and pony rides.

[@hydrolito]

@@abefroman53 Little boys live across the street, they stay over there. The ones next door are grown one brought me a Christmas present. His mom has also brought me presents before. I get along with them fine.

[@ike10577]

1901: rats and mice will be exterminated 2020: 6ix9ine

[@kingkyleiv7960]

_you know what I'm saying_

[@Pravda_Z]

They didn't understand ecology and the interconnectedness of all living systems. But we do.

[@videogameguy101]

Lmfaooo

[@sampsonsimpson1040]

Bruh that’s offensive...to rats and mice

[@mercster]

Imagine watching a video as interesting as this, and all you can think of is a rapper.

[@qdav5]

It's interesting that most of the things they got right happened within only a few decades.

[@alanlight7740]

Interesting but not surprising. Obviously they knew the most about those technologies which were furthest developed at the time - and frequently their other predictions would have probably been correct if better technologies had not displaced them - such as airplanes, which didn't fly until two years after this prediction, replacing airships.

[@calebweldon8102]

I heard once that people tend to underestimate near term progress but over estimate long term progress.

[@alanlight7740]

@@calebweldon8102 - I think the usual formulation is the opposite of that, that people overestimate what can change in three years, but underestimate how much can change in ten years - with the exact number of years varying a little.

[@calebweldon8102]

@@alanlight7740 that’s what I meant to say actually reading my comment back I said it backwards, going to leave it up for posterity

[@alanlight7740]

@@calebweldon8102- LOL, we all misspeak sometimes. Er, mistype in this case.

[@donpacificbobcat9er615]

I’m honestly happy that we were able to meet so many of their expectations.

[@c.glazercrush3994]

Sarcasm at its best.

[@olbradley]

Its always fascinating how one can be so both right and wrong simultaneously.

[@C104-k5m]

Wow some of these were uncanningly accurate (bakeries, US population nubers, horse fly near-extinction; the speed of communications (photographs in just an hour being published), color photography, cheap cars, no coal locomotives, fast travel (air vessels not being used for that seems stupid), they predicted tanks, arial reconnicens, modern meat production, transcontinental telecommunication, electrical music Pretty impressive

[@dragonmaid1360]

They were surprisingly close. Especially when youconsidered they knew nothing about the moder car or mobile phone

[@lazarzivkovic3393]

I think you mean motor* buddy

[@dragonmaid1360]

@@lazarzivkovic3393 thanks dude sure do. Gotta stop those burbons and texting

[@Cyberpuppy63]

The first "steam powered" 4 wheel horseless carriage was invented in 1863, I believe. A smaller prototype was designed in 1803.

[@lazarzivkovic3393]

@ModernClassicComics ummm I was correcting his spelling of motor since he wrote "moder", nothing more

[@lazarzivkovic3393]

@ModernClassicComics haha its okay

[@syntheticsleep]

They were at least 50% ON POINT and about 25% let's say "close but no cigar " Pretty good for any type of future predictions. Lol @ no animals and "pneumatic tubes.'

[@Infinite_Jester]

Pneumatic tubes are actually still used, but only in very limited quantities, and not to transport people or anything fanciful like that.

[@syntheticsleep]

@@Infinite_Jester yeah, I just thought it was funny the extent to which they thought they would be used. It may makes sense for the time, but it's still funny.

[@JiveDadson]

Pneumatic tubes came and went. They were quite common when I was a kid, 60-some years ago.

[@ErichCWagner]

Uhmmmm.. Hyperloop is pretty much almost a thing, no? Granted it was 20 years later, but...

[@syntheticsleep]

Did y'all watch the same video I did? I understand that pneumatic tubes exist.

[@alinoo1]

"Food will be served hot or cold to private houses, in pneumatic tubes or automobile wagons" Pizza boys, they predicted pizza boys. Also, funny they thought plates would be returned cos plastic and cardboard hadn't been invented yet.

[@PataPannu]

Technically Carboard was invented 1890, and before that there were several forms of hardened paper or "boxboard", but since they soak when exposed to moist substances they were onyl considered good for holding dry things.

[@tamz-b1h]

Hot ooor cold. Love it!

[@david2869]

I still would like a pneumatic food tube!

[@WaterShowsProd]

Grab, Gojeck, Food Panda, Line Man... Ok, off by nearly 2 decades and on motorcycles rather than pneumatic tubes, but can you imagine the mess if items spilled or got stuck in the tubes?

[@s.h.4241]

Futurist:” College will be free” 2020 grads: 😂

[@yannikoloff7659]

Hey, college now IS free

[@OatmealGrillBlazer]

college history if you're not from America

[@justinfacer6332]

It's never free. The tax payer still pays for it even when it "free".

[@videogameguy101]

@@justinfacer6332 Better to have millions of people put a few dollars into it than one person pay $100,000 lol

[@justinfacer6332]

@@videogameguy101 I can get on board with that as long as the billionaires pay their fair share in taxes.

[@coconutcore]

“Children will ride around on automobile sleds in winter” “So, little Tommy, what do you want for Christmas this year?” “A JETSKI!” “Great plan!”

[@steveleslie2170]

When I was 5 (back in Jan. 73) I had an Arctic Cat Kitty Cat snowmobile... I would have loved to drive it to school.

[@Dumbledoresarmy13]

It's a snowmobile....jet ski is for water...?

Snowmobiles, fool.

[@thefabulouskitten7204]

That isn't actually that far off. Even aside from the little snowmobiles that are available there are also those little electric car things kids ride around.

[@buddymoore6504]

they predicted snow mobile, and everything would be motor powered, seems legit to me

[@harropizza]

He was surprisingly accurate with a lot of his predictions.

[@ApocryphalDude]

Text speak

[@Vercingetorix.Fantasia]

@LTrain 45 says it's from an article in ladies home journal

[@theespatier4456]

a PeNnY wIlL pAy ThE fArE

[@MrTohawk]

@@Vercingetorix.Fantasia And the writer said in the beginning that they interviewed a lot of scientists for the article.

[@sinisterminister6478]

@@theespatier4456 A penny? What's that? Lmao 😂😂😂

[@Kaddywompous]

This was two years before the Wright Brothers. They couldn’t yet conceive of how the airplane would change things.

[@kwj_nekko_6320]

And they gave the airplanes a wrong purpose, "flying fridge" to import fresh agricultural products from the opposite hemisphere. Frozen agricultural products are transported by ships while passengers are using airplanes.