2011 predictions from 100 years ago

[poky]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/burnred/pred...-a-1911-n-281t

Really interesting list, and interesting to see the frame of reference they were coming from in even explaining some of these "way out-there" ideas. Some of it kinda reads like early SF, to me.

[SoonerTexan]

I really like the "everyone will walk 10 miles one." It was partially true, but didn't account for our epic laziness! And doesn't really jive with the automobile prediction!

[TigerLily]

love that article! I've always wondered about that stuff, but I've never seen an article like that! My favorite is probably how they think that fruit and veggies and flowers will be enormous.

[fluffhead]

That was fun! In my grade school textbook, it had pictures of the "highway of the future" with takeoff and landing lanes. I'm still pissed off that I don't have a flying car.

[niener]

I really got a kick out of this. It's funny how a lot of the things they predicted are kinda true, just in a different forms -- like tubes that go from the stores to your front door. Well we have the internet, you can order lots of crap on the internet, and instead of tubes directly to our front porch we have FedEx! But yeah ST I thought that too, the automobile prediction doesn't jive with the walking 10 miles and doing gymnastics from birth predictions. Clearly the automobiles won that battle

[MissCrabette]

Predictions aside, were people such stupid assholes back then?

I don't have the patience to look at it again from the phone, but one thing in particular that stood out for me was the prediction about animals. That really bothered me for some reason. And I know things aren't that far off with cattle and poultry, but reading that people thought that that's how things should be made me realize how far we've come. Sure, we still do it because money rules, but at least we know it's wrong.

[MissCrabette]

True, but how about the wild animals? That one was quite sad.

[SuzySunshine]

DH and I read it and his comment about the animals was along the lines of, "you could tell they thought animals carried a lot of disease" we didn't think of it as cruel, it was a different time.