Yes, women are “blackening their teeth” using charcoal toothpaste, and a flight from Chicago to Hamburg is only 9,5 hours now… just not sure about the Newspaper and Private Kitchen thing, though. Here is a list of 17 predictions about 2023 from 100 years ago!
Global (02 January 2023) – What did people think of us 100 years ago? What did they think life would be like in the future? Well, we have a list of 17 predictions about 2023 made in 1923.
Paul Fairie, a researcher and instructor from the University of Calgary, shared a list of real predictions from 1923 regarding what 2023 might look like.
From how our life expectancy might be longer to speaking through watch-size radio telephones and even how men will be curling their hair. The projected ideas are both hilariously wrong and eerily on point.
Read them below, or check out his Twitter to see the sourced Newspaper clippings.
- The workday will be four hours long.
- Women will blacken their teeth and shave their heads.
- Radio will replace gasoline.
- All people will be beautiful.
- Life expectancy will be 100 years.
- Life expectancy will also be 300 years.
- People will wear kidney cosies.
- Men will curl their hair.
- The US will have a population of 300 million.
- Canada will have a population of 100 million.
- Utensils will be made of pulp.
- Flights from Chicago to Hamburg will only take 18 hours.
- Newspapers will have been out of business for 50 years.
- Private kitchens will disappear.
- Cancer will be eradicated.
- War will be wireless and we might have telepathy.
- People will communicate using watch-size radio telephones.
What do you think? Did the past predictors get any right?
by 