Damn, the people of the past would be furious with the fact that we weren’t busy stabbing horses now, or that we don’t have cantaloupes the size of a car.
I know what you mean. It took me a good 20 seconds to open the file, scan it, and read the different headlines for the predictions. Who’s got 20 seconds these days?
I want my pneumatic tubes, damnit
The internet is a series of tubes.
FAIL.
Not sure if fake.
No thanks, I’m not going to read that.
Damn, the people of the past would be furious with the fact that we weren’t busy stabbing horses now, or that we don’t have cantaloupes the size of a car.
There’s no date. Somehow that seems important. This needs context.
It’s from December 1900.
paleo-future.blogspot.com/2007/04/next-hundred-years-milwaukee-herold-und.html
Just google the author’s name if you want more info about the article.
It mentioned 100 years from now; plus, it mentioned 2001, and the turn of the century, so 1900-ish.
hm. It is fairly accurate on some parts. If this were published before 1950, it would be an astonishing forecast.
Strawberries the size of apples? Sign me up.
I’d guess circa 1900, since it’s a prophecy of 100 years and these would be true by 2001.
If ever there was a tl;dr…
I know what you mean. It took me a good 20 seconds to open the file, scan it, and read the different headlines for the predictions. Who’s got 20 seconds these days?
Always hit or miss with predictions like this. But many are fairly accurate. I’d say these fine men did better than most in predicting the future.
nice