Most of these things seem hardly out there in the context of when he made them. Well working on r&d for a television he predicted people would use TV for news?

Most of these things seem hardly out there in the context of when he made them. Well working on r&d for a television he predicted people would use TV for news? Like if you already invented a tv, that seems like the most obvious use. During the high point of first wave feminism and changing gender roles, he predicted that woman wearing pants might become the norm... He predicted wind power despite wind power having been used for hundreds of years by this point. He predicted "Life is to be made far easier by the use of machinery that will do all the heavy and disagreeable work.” in the middle of that already starting to happen (the industrial revolution was already well over at this point) To be sure, its easy to look back and think things are obvious. Plenty of people of that time would have said the opposite. However its not like these predictions were out of left field for the time.