View Full Version : Ten 100-year predictions that came true
King Gizzard
17-01-2012, 01:33 AM
Some are quite vague but freaky none the less ;o
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16444966
Shaun
17-01-2012, 01:38 AM
Have you read the predictions for 2112? Some of them are quite optimistic :joker: like the telekinesis one
Mystic Mock
17-01-2012, 02:13 AM
He predicted quite well considering the time period he predicted this in.
King Gizzard
17-01-2012, 02:24 AM
I predict in 100 years time we will be able to eat cats without being frowned upon
Fetch The Bolt Cutters
17-01-2012, 02:27 AM
this thread just gave me an idea
i hope cows and chickens take over the world soon and start to farm humans for meat see how they like it
and it was so utterly genius that i had to post it on tumblr
Crimson Dynamo
17-01-2012, 02:07 PM
Predicting things is not illegal
Me. I Am Salman
17-01-2012, 03:22 PM
some of his predictions are **** though
"slow population growth"
well duh.
population has been rising since the beginning
some of his predictions are **** though
"slow population growth"
well duh.
population has been rising since the beginning
He was predicting that population growth would slow though
fruit_cake
17-01-2012, 03:56 PM
maybe In 100 years time they might have cured death
Mystic Mock
17-01-2012, 04:12 PM
maybe In 100 years time they might have cured death
I have a feeling that could be the case aswell,I hope I can live for 115 years to get the cure.:hugesmile:
Or do you mean bring people back from the dead?
Me. I Am Salman
17-01-2012, 04:13 PM
He was predicting that population growth would slow though
but how has it slowed when it is booming more than ever?
Me. I Am Salman
17-01-2012, 04:14 PM
haha fruit_cake death being cured now that would be great!
fruit_cake
17-01-2012, 04:15 PM
I have a feeling that could be the case aswell,I hope I can live for 115 years to get the cure.:hugesmile:
Or do you mean bring people back from the dead?
I meant the first one, but the second one I never thought of! :amazed:
but how has it slowed when it is booming more than ever?
Because the population is growing at a slower rate than it was a century ago, according to the article the population of the US would be at 1 billion right now if it was still growing at the same rate as a hundred yeas ago
King Gizzard
17-01-2012, 04:44 PM
''there will be a cure for major illnesses''
There probably already is, it just doesn't make money does it
fruit_cake
17-01-2012, 04:46 PM
''there will be a cure for major illnesses''
There probably already is, it just doesn't make money does it
Nathan is the cure for major illnesses :idc:
3. Mobile phones
"Wireless telephone and telegraph circuits will span the world. A husband in the middle of the Atlantic will be able to converse with his wife sitting in her boudoir in Chicago. We will be able to telephone to China quite as readily as we now talk from New York to Brooklyn."
International phone calls were unheard of in Watkins' day. It was another 15 years before the first call was made, by Alexander Bell, even from one coast of the US to the other. The idea of wireless telephony was truly revolutionary
...bet he's thrilled to bits about that
Nathan is the cure for major illnesses :idc:
Nathan is major illnesses :idc:
Livia
17-01-2012, 05:55 PM
Lots of quite loose connections have been quite expertly knitted together to form "predictions".
fruit_cake
17-01-2012, 08:14 PM
Nathan is major illnesses :idc:
Nathan is the cause of and solution too, all major illnesses :idc:
:laugh:
Harry!
17-01-2012, 08:18 PM
this thread just gave me an idea
i hope cows and chickens take over the world soon and start to farm humans for meat see how they like it
and it was so utterly genius that i had to post it on tumblr
ie Orwell's Animal Farm.
King Gizzard
17-01-2012, 08:21 PM
:joker:
lostalex
17-01-2012, 09:12 PM
in 100 years we'll all be speaking chinese and realize that we need a strong communist government to control us.
this thread reminds me of the old Conan O-Brien "In the year 2000" sketches.
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