Predictions From 1911 for 2011

[Hobgoblin]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/burnred/predictions-of-what-2011-would-be-like-in-a-1911-n-281t

Still no free tuition for poor college students and we still have mice, rats and horses..but at least they got a few things right.

 

[Pink Ranger]

I think if you flew American Airlines, it really would take 2 days to get to England.

 

[Quasimod0]

No c x or q.

 

[Wolfwood]

No c x or q.

He's not too far off though when he goes on to say that English will be a condensed language. LOL AMIRITE?

My favorite one is: "A man or a woman unable to walk 10 miles at a stretch will be considered a weakling." I think he'd be quite disappointed.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

No mosquitoes or flies? O how I wish that one was true.

 

[Thundercrack85]

Well, it's not that hard to predict some of these. There not being wild animals is just silly.

And we all knew Nicaragua would become an American state. The coke state.

 

[BestGirl]

I came into this thread fully prepared to mock the ignorance of people from 1911, but they were actually fairly prescient, probably because the predictors were academics and scientists.

One thing's a weird, though. In the opening paragraph the author says that these predictions are for 2001, "a century from now", so the article must have been written in 1901.

 

[Drizzle]

"Strawberries as large as apples will be eaten by our great-great-grandchildren for their Christmas dinners a hundred years hence."

lulz