Comments on: ‘What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years’ c.1900

By: Home Fancy

Home Fancy — Sat, 17 Sep 2024 00:20:38 +0000

It doesn’t seem fake to me; so much of it is inaccurate. The drugs stuff? I think people consume more drugs than ever. And the agricultural stuff tends to be wrong, too– cars are still more money than horses (in fact you can pick up a horse for free these days), cows still have horns and can run faster than hogs, wild hogs can still run pretty quickly for that matter, and all of those giant peas and roses don’t exist. There are still insects and rodents and wild animals. To me, more is incorrect than correct, and while it’s uncanny that some of it came true, enough of it is wrong that it’s 100% believable.

By: Honour Horne-Jaruk

Honour Horne-Jaruk — Fri, 16 Sep 2024 02:09:28 +0000

“To the wisest and best in each field of endeavor I have gone” – these predictions were made by experts, each one projecting forward present (1900) trends in his own field. No wonder they were relatively accurate.
As to the giant strawberries, etc.: if you have the money, you can buy “dipping strawberries” every bit as large as the most common apples of that day. However, they have virtually no flavor.

We have green and lavender-blue roses, though true black ones still elude us.
If we went to present-day specialists and asked each one to extrapolate forward ten years, or even twenty, advances likely to occur in his or her own field we’d have a similar rate of success. (The rate of change sped up too much in the past century to make 100-year predictions useful.)

By: ken

ken — Thu, 11 Aug 2024 02:37:59 +0000

The biggest issue with these predictions is us. We criticize using the filters of our reality. Not only can we not see into the future, but we don’t have the ability to see backward 100 years so we question everything in a manner consistent with the shallow Twitter/Facebook model where cynicism is confused with intellect.

By: Lu

Lu — Mon, 01 Aug 2024 22:05:55 +0000

I think I have this issue at home. I’m pretty sure it’s a real article, not that I’m sure we have any reason to assume bad faith here or some kind of hoax. I’ll check and report back.

By: Liz

Liz — Mon, 01 Aug 2024 08:05:36 +0000

Free education is not that far fetched, though, historically and internationally speaking. In the communist countries education (even university education) was free – until the system collapsed.
Although it came at a price for the next generations to pay…

By: Shaun

Shaun — Sun, 31 Jul 2024 13:55:32 +0000

Not just free education, but if you look closer they also predicted universal healthcare. We can only wish . . .