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You aren't. Look at predictions about the future from 1916. They're the definition of quaint.

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• unethical_ban 10y ago
  I've gotten the opposite impression. There was a set of drawings from 1910 predicting Paris in 2010. There were some obvious whiffs, but it broadly predicted automation, remote audio/video communications, and other things.
  • masklinn 10y ago
    > it broadly predicted automation, remote audio/video communications, and other things It trivially extrapolated technologies it already had: macro-automation and long-range communication (extrapolated from the early telephones to video). Did it predict laptops or smartphones though?
  • mason240 10y ago
    Predicting advances in technology are easy. What's hard is predict is it's impact on society. How many people in 1950 would have guessed that social media would be a thing?