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- captainpete, on 10/12/2007, -5/+218Yeah he's 120 years old.
- canti32, on 10/12/2007, -6/+192Well, with our electric youth machines, I suppose anythings possible.
- crapu, on 10/12/2007, -16/+132Buried for inaccuracies.
- dshPls, on 10/12/2007, -4/+108"dugged"
- PolicePeople, on 10/12/2007, -10/+69"14 Year Old Teenager" seems a little redundant, no?
- chemman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+58Not too bad considering what advancements were available at the time these were made. I would be curious though to see all of his predictions, not just the excerpts with near correct predictions. I could sit and write 1000's of wild predictions about 2107 and I bet at least a couple would seem correct to individuals living in that era.
- carcass350, on 10/12/2007, -13/+65oops, digg really needs a delete button
digg down - IEatHamburgers, on 10/12/2007, -2/+48@dclowd: Your usage of "the word" is superfluous as well. I think.
- Ngai, on 10/12/2007, -2/+46Imagination is more important than knowledge...
Albert Einstein
US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) - dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -7/+50Yes, and your usage of the word "rather" is just as superfluous.
- fober, on 10/12/2007, -1/+41Ok that was boring. Sounds like every prediction I've ever heard.
"IN THE FUTURE WE WILL HAVE FLYING CARS AND TALL BUILDINGS" - ATH025, on 10/12/2007, -8/+4614 year old teenager? Isn't that rather redundant?
- sluggoo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+38120 years old? Buried as inanimate.
- Pissoff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31I wish I was born in 2050.
Stupid no flying car having year 2000. - TekeeTakShak, on 10/12/2007, -6/+35This Digg article fails to deliver. How, exactly, did this get top 10?
- forgiste, on 10/12/2007, -2/+29Does anyone else find it weird that the sign about making people younger while they wait is located on the 119 floor (911 backwards) and that this was a prediction about 2001?
Where's my tinfoil hat? - HunterTV, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24Burried as lame since he didn't sing "In the yeeaar two-thouuusssand..." at the beginning.
- dreicher, on 10/12/2007, -4/+28Why you are being dugg down I do not know...that's just funny!
- retral, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23You do realise that when you suggest a delete feature in your comment after making an erroneous post, then ask people to bury the comment... they actually digg it up because they agree, right? :P
- EmperorAwesome, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21I do like the idea of elevated streets between skyscrapers. Very Gotham City.
- TenebrousX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17you should be able to delete a comment in the same time you have to edit it.
- Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Wow, two extremely vague predictions...this guy was a regular Nostradamus.
- Ninja337, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Life in 2001, not 1932
- spudnic, on 10/12/2007, -8/+18And with only minor side effects such as severe memory loss, possible brain damage, inability to deal with emotional problems, the promotion of other mental disorders associated with having their belief that something is wrong with them re-enforced, possible worsening of depression due to the patient not receiving proper counseling alongside the treatment.
Electroshock therapy is effective the same way cutting off a toe because of an ingrown toenail is effective. - dmarques, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Just about as redundant as your comment
- Homunculiheaded, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14I don't know why someone dugg you down because you're spot on. While it may seem very barbaric, especially in movies, electro-shock therapy is NOT just some crazy thing they used to think worked. For whatever reason electro-shock therapy is actually very helpful in treating depression and is also not done on the patient while they are conscious (unlike in movies).
for more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro-shock_therapy
As odd and crazy as it seems ECT is not barbaric and IS effective. - betobeto, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10"On the streets there will not be any room for street cars"
At least he got that dead right. - Ellsass, on 11/05/2008, -4/+12A delete button takes way any responsibility of owning up to what you said. The preview/edit period is for fixing mistakes you found the first time. Perhaps a better solution would be to address the most common reasons for wanting to delete -- replied to the wrong comment, and someone else just posted what I said. In the first case it would be great if the user could drag-n-drop their comment to the proper place, or at least select a new parent. In the second case I'd like to see a "duplicate" checkbox -- the comment would remain, but readers could filter out such comments in their preferences.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10How did this make it on the front page?
- maxx77, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8"The Sonee Corporation from Japan will release the most disappointing videobox the world has ever seen, and will charge $2,000 for it while claiming that it is somehow a 'bargain'"
That is downright CREEPY how close to the mark that kid was. - listrophy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10I wish I was born in 1800. I think I'd be so much more capable of making cool and innovative stuff. Nowadays, it seems like anything simple and useful is already thought of and patented.
Or hell... even 1400 would be cool....as long as I wasn't a serf. :) - dtrinh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7In 2107, I will laugh at my current conceptions of what the future holds :)
- goodoldharris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6kronix2:
In Tokyo and Shanghai many roads and train lines run through the city far above ground level. Driving on the freeway in some places you can turn your head to the right and look directly into the windows of buildings 7 or 8 floors up, turn to the left and see a train line in the distance that's even higher than the freeway. Are ALL the skyscrapers connected? No. But there plenty of "lines way up in the air" that connect to buildings (parking and stations) at several stories above ground level. The reason for it is just like the kid said, there's no room for the traffic on ground level. We don't have many carriages fastened to balloons, but we do have "air-ships", which we call airplanes. Worldwide, 60,000+ commercial flights daily. Sure, some of the kid's predictions sound silly. But it was 1901, the kid was only 14 years old, and he definitely got some things right.
When a technology is newly invented or being developed, its ultimate use and impact on the world is often unclear. You're right to say: "the only thing we can be sure of is that we'll advance". But imagining and predicting how technology will be used in the future is a big part of what makes that advance happen. - Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Electricity will add vim to the aged and power our motor-cars across the heavens!
- kronix2, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Even if he lived to be 120, he'd have realised how silly his predictions were. Predicting the future based on present technologies means you'll come up with predictions which in retrospect sound ridiculous. Balloon-supported air carriages? Roads between skyscrapers? It's like those people in the 1960s who predicted we'd have bases on the moon by the year 2000.
The only thing we can be sure of is that we'll advance. At *some time* we'll do cool things we wish we could do now, like replicating matter, travelling between galaxies and building variations of Dyson spheres to harness the energy of stars. As always, science fiction leads the way.
Predictions should focus on what we may be able to do, not how we'll use new technologies. Of course, it's perfectly possible to build roads between skyscrapers - but it's highly impractical and dangerous. - AveryDeDog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Hey, I want my flying car NOW!
- 8270369, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7The electric youth machines have a parallel with laser resurfacing and the like, so I'd give him a point on that one.
As someone pointed out in the comments below the actual article, electricity was very trendy at the time, kind of like "the interweb" is today. Ten years later, around the 1910s, radium was equally as trendy and viewed as a multi-purpose wonder thing capable of curing diseases and powering flying machines. I love reading about stuff like that because it makes me wonder about all the stuff we take for granted today as "common wisdom" which will, a hundred years from now, be seen of as really really stupid. We think we're so smart, but we're just a bunch of furless apes. - Blandyman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7inv1c7u5:
He never made that claim. He was, however, quoted as saying that pipe smoking is helpful in brain storming (I can't remember the exact quote).
However, he never made mention of marijuana being a brain booster. I smoke pot, and I'm sensible enough to realize it isn't healthy... it's just so much fun, though, that the benefits outweigh the risks. - SultanTravi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I knew a person who had severe mental issues after surgery (something about the anesthesia). ECT brought her back to normal, completely.
And I should add that months of other therapies resulted in nothing. Sometimes it fails, but electro-convulsive and electroshock therapy are both effective methods. Yes, there can be bad side effects, but it can fix huge problems. Sometimes, the risks are vastly outweighed by the benefits. - BenKaras, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@Soniti
YEAH DUDE, I'm with you... it's almost as if that was the point of the article or some ***** like that. - bigstinky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3But did anyone notice the weird bit?
"...and you will often see collisions in the clouds. In one of the sky-scrapers on the 119 story you will see a sign, 'Old People Restored to Youth by Electricity, While You Wait.' "
Collisions in the clouds... sky-scrapers and the numbers 119..(9/11?)...All real close together.
Like a modern day Nostradamus, he was. - randf, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6pasting comments to digg from some other comment page is clever? and then digging it down for the obvious lameness is a conspriacy to suppress it?
what color is the tinfoil in your world? - arbulus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Well, with enough of it, you won't be getting any older.
- blackjack75, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Buried.
Not because of innacurracy. It's just a statistical thing when one was born more than 120 years ago. - arbulus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I would like to predict that with technological advancements and breakthroughs in the medical field, as well as cybernetics and nanotechnolgy, we ourselves will all be able to laugh at our silly predictions 100 years from now.
- GhostFace2K, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3i usually don't say pointless comments like this
but this submission is *****... how the ***** did this get on the front page of digg... - sonochamp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Kids say the darndest things.
- ECas123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2They left out the most important part of his article heres a quote "And there will be tubes every where and naked women and poker chips will flow through them!"
- skyfire1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Look at the idiots on the road. Would you really want these guys to fly anything?
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