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- jameszol, on 03/02/2008, -8/+629My favorite is "everybody will walk ten miles...A man or woman unable to walk a ten miles at a stretch will be regarded as a weakling"...and we're now one of the fattest nations in the world - full of "weaklings"...lol
- Tigerbot5, on 03/02/2008, -1/+387"Man will see around the world" is eerily accurate, as is "Photographs will be Telegraphed"...
- sk11, on 03/02/2008, -0/+358Makes you wonder what the world will be like in 2108.
- Pogojoe, on 03/02/2008, -16/+348My favourite was "There will be no C, X or Q in our everyday alphabet." Umm...yeah...ok.
- Sludgehammer, on 03/02/2008, -1/+236It's amazing just how much the author missed on some points, and how accurate he was on others. I liked the "Aerial war-ships and mobile forts on wheels" bit, even though he got the details wrong, B-52s and tanks come pretty close to what he was describing. I'd rather have apple sized strawberries though.
- inactive, on 03/02/2008, -2/+152What do you mean we don't have store purchases by tubes? Internet shopping is a big industry.
- sleeknerve, on 03/02/2008, -1/+144by TUBES, he was obviously talking about the internet
- mriegger, on 03/02/2008, -1/+141All cities will have public gymnasiums - where people will go once or twice as part of their New Year's Resolution and then never go again
- BlueSkyfish, on 03/02/2008, -1/+140They still can't survive a can of Raid.
- Psythik, on 03/02/2008, -1/+136Well the "English will be a language of condensed words expressing condensed ideas" part came true. Ever heard of text messaging?
- EVogel, on 03/02/2008, -11/+145from "Ladies' Home Journal"
-Why were women back then not cleaning or preparing to make sandwiches? - HardSide, on 03/02/2008, -5/+131Few drugs will be swallowed...ouch talk about opposite. These days they give out medications for anything without thinking twice.
- JayCruz, on 03/02/2008, -7/+131It would've been great if we didn't have mosquitoes or cockroaches, but I've heard they can survive a nuclear bomb. :)
- idc5, on 03/02/2008, -1/+121"condensed ideas" of our language happens all the time through the acronyms used on the Internet such as WTF and ROFL
- lacronicus, on 03/02/2008, -3/+122I dunno, x is such an awesome letter. What would happen to things like x-men? Ecks-men just doesn't have that ring to it.
- TecK415, on 03/02/2008, -5/+119"A university education will be free to every man and woman."
Ah... I wish. - greenlight2001, on 03/02/2008, -0/+113"A website called digg will be formed, allowing people around the world to share and comment on tech news... but it will quickly disintegrate into a place to post pictures of talking cats and boobs, all the while commenting on how a story got to the front page with only 32 diggs."
- duster, on 03/02/2008, -0/+111There was actually a movement to modify the English language this way. Those letters are superfluous or confusing and can be replaced with other letters and combinations of letters. C could be replaced with S or K, X with 'ks' and Q with K.
- Signa91, on 03/02/2008, -2/+107La Bamba in a high-pitched voice: "In the year 2000, in the year two-thousannnddddd........"
- Maynza, on 03/02/2008, -9/+109It will be exactly the same. And people will be regretting voting for Bush the IIX
- tomtuts, on 03/02/2008, -1/+96I didn't know Senator Ted Stevens was THAT old
- Radan, on 03/02/2008, -6/+100lol dis arktikl zuxxrs!!! i yse c,x,q all teh tim, how elsse w0ld i pronouiouiuisnce "qukae III: arena" or "CS", lolnub!!!1bbq
- rnelsonee, on 03/02/2008, -0/+89I've never seen predictions from so far long ago be so accurate. Sure he's off on a few accounts, but most of those predictions from the 1950s aren't even this good, and they had planes and TV by then. Dugg.
- petard, on 03/02/2008, -0/+89it would if you had been brought up your whole life with it spelled like that.
- NsinU8, on 03/02/2008, -1/+84"He (man) will live 50 years instead of 35 years at present"
Ouch. Sucked to be them. - TobiasParker, on 03/02/2008, -0/+82why is this so hard for yew people. It wood be Eks-boks.
- elscorcho717, on 03/02/2008, -2/+83anti-xkcd plot?
- GramarNatzi, on 03/02/2008, -1/+80*eks-men
No C's either - mason215, on 03/02/2008, -6/+81it seems like every one of these articles think there will be flying cars, i am sad and disappointed that there aren't any
- inactive, on 03/02/2008, -1/+72Gas will cost $34.50 a gallon. And we'll still be buying it.
- djepik, on 03/02/2008, -2/+72Well they certainly got the tubes part right!
- freezerburn819, on 03/02/2008, -1/+71haven't you seen spongebob? EVERYTHING will be CHROMED.
- bambooshoot, on 03/02/2008, -6/+69what the hell is IIX?
- ieataquacrayons, on 03/02/2008, -1/+64Or the bug zapper. Stupid bugs, "Let's fly into the pretty light".
- Jvskill, on 03/02/2008, -1/+63People can barely drive now, why the hell would you want to give them ANOTHER dimension to deal with?
- Kythas, on 03/02/2008, -1/+57They obviously never predicted WoW
- Velnich, on 03/02/2008, -1/+57Curiously accurate on some accounts.
- whatthefu, on 03/02/2008, -3/+55Can you imagine if Latin American countries tried to join the US? Americans would ***** themselves in fury today.
- fhernand, on 03/02/2008, -0/+50apparently it was a time when electricity could solve everything... such as making vegetables grow overnight.
- Pritchard, on 03/02/2008, -3/+53It's the most amazing thing... We're so close to the beginning of the "modern" computing era that what we imagine the future to be like is potentially far too *low* for what it will really be like, rather than too high as is usually the case. Computers changed everything. But here's a few of my guesses, for the year 2100:
- Language Translators will have become so advanced that the need for a single global language to increase communications has decreased significantly. Using new communications technologies along with new language technologies, you can hold a live conversation with anyone, anywhere in the world.
- Government will either become far smaller, or far larger. (It is my personal fear that unless we reach a certain Social Level before we reach a certain Technological Level, a single world government is inevitable)
- New space technologies will allow very small groups of people to have permanent bases in space, beginning the expansion of mankind. Terra forming Mars and potentially other nearby planets has most-likely already began, with new technologies able to help stabilize a new eco system far more quickly than what is currently anticipated.
- Before the year 2100, the first reported incident of an attack consisting entirely of walking, rolling, or small stealth robots in colonies will have occurred. They are generally controlled by no one, except individual robots. Instead, they are programmed with sets of behaviors, targets, and can receive target updates and behavior change commands live. This will begin the surprisingly stable era of Robotic Warfare. (just how computers existed before the 'modern' computer, the 'robotic warfar' era has to be set off by a time when it's cheap, practical, or even feasible in any way to have robots carrying out such duties on a daily basis)
- Obviously, some sort of new energy source will have been founded, but there's so many we can take advantage of, and even some we don't fully understand! Sorry, I won't take too many guesses as to how this turns out. I have aspirations in the field of energy myself hah. - Tripacer9999, on 03/02/2008, -2/+50***** Raid, be a man and use gasoline or a flamethrower.
- Furkle, on 03/02/2008, -0/+46Have you seen a bushel of strawberries lately? Some of them are massive and if not apple size damn near it
- TobiasParker, on 03/02/2008, -0/+45Zylophone.
- GramarNatzi, on 03/02/2008, -1/+44I predict strawberries the size of coconuts.
- bambooshoot, on 03/02/2008, -3/+458 = VIII
thanks for trying :) - aceallways, on 03/02/2008, -0/+42you mean VIII?
- TobiasParker, on 03/02/2008, -2/+44Reasonable no. Phonetic...yes
- v1c1ous, on 03/02/2008, -0/+41he predicted single-person meals :/
- adooga, on 03/02/2008, -0/+41Kayeffsee.
- eXCubed, on 03/02/2008, -4/+45"Store purchases by tube"
Looks like Sen. Stevens knew what he was on about... he was just 100 years behind the rest of us... -
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