Thinking About the Future

First Source
1. Predictions of the Year 2000 from The Ladies Home Journal of December 1900

Ten 100-Year Predictions that Came True

2. I think these lists are both a wish list and an educated guess for what life would be like today. In the first article, the wisest and most careful men in the greatest institutions at the time were asked to predict what they thought the world would be like in 100 years, meaning the people making these predictions were very well-educated. In the second article, a civil engineer named John Elfreth Watkins made a number of educated predictions about what the world would be like today.

3. Predictions that seem to have come true are there would be about 350 million people living in America, Americans will be taller by one to two inches, toys and games will be designed to strengthen babies' muscles, photographs will be telegraphed from any distance, there will be wireless telephones all over the world, there will be digital color photography, there will be television, there will be tanks, and ready-cooked meals will be bought from establishments.

Predictions that turned out to be bizarre are there will be no street cars in our cities, there will be no mosquitoes or flies, there will be no X, Q, or C in the alphabet, a university education will be free to every man and every woman, rats, mice, and horses will be practically extinct, and everybody will walk 10 miles a day.

4. In these predictions, a common trend is the development of technology. These people who made these predictions seemed to think that the world today would be a much more technologically advanced and developed place, which it is. It is clear that they believed that the world would be a much better place because of its advancement in technology.

5. I believe that almost everything will have gone digital. I think that all big national chain stores will have their stores online and all shopping will be done online. There will also be a more effective way of delivering packages, making delivery times much faster.