A newspaper in 1924 made some wild predictions about 2024
A century ago one newspaper made some wild, and a few accurate, predictions.
Humans have often seen this in science fiction.
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The 'Back To The Future' franchise predicted that hoverboards would be readily available by 2015, and flying cars are also still nowhere near as common as they are in most sci-fi.
Seeing what those in the past thought would happen in the future can be quite entertaining and interesting, especially when looking at what they managed to predict correctly.
A researcher at the University of Calgary, Paul Fairie, has compiled a list on X (formerly Twitter) of newspaper clippings that wrote about the year 2024 in 1924.
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How accurate were a bunch of predictions made a century ago?
It's a bit of a mixed bag...
Let's go to the beginning, shall we?
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Children are deposited on their bedroom floors by their automatic beds, eating breakfast tablets instead of actual food, and teachers shock them to get them to pay attention.
Beds will automatically fling children out in the morning pic.twitter.com/OJx8Nj3Hy0
— Paul Fairie (@paulisci) January 1, 2024
This was a bit far-fetched but some were closely accurate:
Automobiles will travel on speedways through the centre of town pic.twitter.com/8MB2cOt8Si
— Paul Fairie (@paulisci) January 1, 2024
Family albums will be videos instead of photographs pic.twitter.com/vVcXMwU1Px
— Paul Fairie (@paulisci) January 1, 2024
Interplanetary travel will be as easy as trans-Atlantic travel pic.twitter.com/AS8z4N3ATX
— Paul Fairie (@paulisci) January 1, 2024
Men will stop wearing corsets pic.twitter.com/uPR9ecDhyh
— Paul Fairie (@paulisci) January 1, 2024
And then there are the hilariously silly ones that you can't help but laugh at:
Horses will no longer exist pic.twitter.com/eBGjp42Agu
— Paul Fairie (@paulisci) January 1, 2024
Men's legs will wither away from underuse pic.twitter.com/24SaV1UzzR
— Paul Fairie (@paulisci) January 1, 2024
Men's legs will wither away from underuse pic.twitter.com/24SaV1UzzR
— Paul Fairie (@paulisci) January 1, 2024
Everyone will wear flying clothes pic.twitter.com/5mHUSrgPq6
— Paul Fairie (@paulisci) January 1, 2024
Movies will bring about world peace pic.twitter.com/w6zfqrXTOI
— Paul Fairie (@paulisci) January 1, 2024
While there might be a lot of things humans would love to change about 2024, at least we still have horses and men still have their legs.
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