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Predictions for the year 2000 from the 19th century

by whland
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I came across this website with a list of postcards showing predictions for the year 2000 from the 19th century.

Thought other might be interested in them too.

The pics are at the link,

12 Predictions for the Year 2000 from a 19th-Century German Chocolate Company | Mental Floss
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  • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
    Originally Posted by whland View Post

    I came across this website with a list of postcards showing predictions for the year 2000 from the 19th century.

    Thought other might be interested in them too.

    The pics are at the link,

    12 Predictions for the Year 2000 from a 19th-Century German Chocolate Company | Mental Floss
    Those people were idiots back then.

    Perpetual motion machines, cyborgs, time travel, teleportation, computer simulated universes, invisibility, and living forever, guiding bullets with our minds, gambling systems based on intuition, psychic warfare...sure, we have those things.

    But the people back then were so out of it.
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    • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
      Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

      Those people were idiots back then.

      Perpetual motion machines, cyborgs, time travel, teleportation, computer simulated universes, invisibility, and living forever, guiding bullets with our minds, gambling systems based on intuition, psychic warfare...sure, we have those things.

      But the people back then were so out of it.
      The predictions were way off, we don't use hot air balloons much but you certainly make up for it where hot air's concerned.
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        Originally Posted by lanfear63 View Post

        The predictions were way off, we don't use hot air balloons much but you certainly make up for it where hot air's concerned.

        More like the Hindenburg on final approach.
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      Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

      Those people were idiots back then.
      What do you mean "back then"? Have we evolved since then?
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        They got the moving sidewalk almost right, and the sub, but probably not the rest.

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      • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
        Originally Posted by whateverpedia View Post

        What do you mean "back then"? Have we evolved since then?
        Whatever;

        Ha!

        No, as people, we are the same.

        Look at the predictions. They are based on the technology and interests of the day.

        Carry that forward. What we predict for our future is just based on our culture and interests today. There are probably technologies that don't even exist now, that will direct where we go.

        Interesting stuff.
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    They were pretty much on the money with the Theater option.

    Some of the writers comments didn't seem to give credit where credit was due. The roofed city, for example, would be perfect for a drought because the roof would collect the water and distribute it accordingly. And the x-ray machines are instead thermal scanners of today.
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      I love that travel predominates in these images.

      Whole lotta physical zoomin' around here.

      Kinda weird how things turned out.

      I been all over the world today in my kimono.

      Thing those Victorians missed was cat pix the losers.
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    WOW! Maybe this was some crazy nutjob that could see the future!

    #1? YEP, they made it! The fluoroscope was used for looking inside of peoples bodies/
    #2? YEP, they made them in several ways, but expenses, insurance, and laws are keeping most from having them.
    #3? YEP! Ironically NOT mobile homes which tend to be stationary, but RVs, etc...
    #4? YEP! Alas, politics and all caused THAT to fail.
    #5? YEP! In fact, I believe they were first kind of like today in about the 18th century! One was used in the US revolutionary war!
    #6? YEP! By plane, train, and helicopter!
    #7? YEP! But they use pontoons
    #8? BELIEVE IT OR NOT, ****YEP****! I actually RODE on one! IN DENMARK! The train backed up into a huge ship, and it ferried us across between AARHUS, IIRC, and COPENHAGEN! So it wasn't a ship on train tracks, but a ship that a train could ride into.
    #9? YEP! The guy that created it called it the Environmentally Protected Community Of Tomorrow, or EPCOT for short! YEP, the EPCOT center at Disneyworld!
    #10? YEP
    #11? YEP
    #12? They COULD, to a degree.

    As for the fashion? Have you seen films within the last 50 years try to predict the future? YIKES! But HORSES? BALLOONS? COME ON! That's a JOKE, RIGHT?

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    Prediction is difficult, especially about the future!
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