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Will Life Be Worth Living In 2,000AD?
- iamwil 19y agoI noticed that all the transportation predictions didn't come true, but the predictions on information systems and computers can be considered to be fairly accurately predicted. However, I suppose because they left out details like how machines will talk to each other, or how mail will be transcribed, they seem to be spot on. Notice they didn't say anything about a worldwide network of computers, nor anything about search, nanotech, human genome, cell phones, personal devices, or genetic engineering.
- eru 19y ago"It's the way they think the world will live in the next century - if there's any world left!"
- pg 19y agoThis seems fake. The typography of the article doesn't match the ads, and the ads are too concentratedly picturesque.
- leila_c 19y agodid you see peter norvig at the SF singularity summit last month? he discussed predictions from an early 1900s ladies home journal article. there seemed to be no pattern in what sorts of things came true.