Ten 100-year predictions that came true
 

Some are quite vague but freaky none the less ;o

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16444966

Have you read the predictions for 2112? Some of them are quite optimistic :joker: like the telekinesis one

He predicted quite well considering the time period he predicted this in.

I predict in 100 years time we will be able to eat cats without being frowned upon

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

Predicting things is not illegal

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

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?

but how has it slowed when it is booming more than ever?

haha fruit_cake death being cured now that would be great!

I meant the first one, but the second one I never thought of! :amazed:

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

''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 major illnesses :idc:

Lots of quite loose connections have been quite expertly knitted together to form "predictions".

Nathan is the cause of and solution too, all major illnesses :idc:

ie Orwell's Animal Farm.

:joker:

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.