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Predictions of the Year 2000 from The Ladies Home Journal of December 1900
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<blockquote data-quote="Risata" data-source="post: 38259" data-attributes="member: 8"><p><strong>Re: Predictions of the Year 2000 from The Ladies Home Journal of December 1900</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Meanwhile both kinds of coal will have become more and more expensive. Man will have found electricity manufactured by waterpower to be much cheaper.</strong></p><p><strong></strong> </p><p>Yep, and yep. When was Hoover Dam built? 22 years after this prediction, the design for it started. Today, we still look for alternative forms to generate our stuff.</p><p></p><p><strong>Hot and Cold Air from Spigots. Hot or cold air will be turned on from spigots to regulate the temperature of a house as we now turn on hot or cold water from spigots to regulate the temperature of the bath. Central plants will supply this cool air and heat to city houses in the same way as now our gas or electricity is furnished.</strong></p><p><strong></strong> </p><p>Central air conditioning and heat.</p><p></p><p><strong>Rising early to build the furnace fire will be a task of the olden times. Homes will have no chimneys, because no smoke will be created within their walls.</strong></p><p><strong></strong> </p><p>Thermostats. And Chimneys are now optional, no smoke is generated in the heating/cooling of homes, and today, I've noticed alot of new homes that don't even have a fireplace being built.</p><p></p><p><strong>Store Purchases by Tube. Pneumatic tubes, instead of store wagons, will deliver packages and bundles. These tubes will collect, deliver and transport mail over certain distances, perhaps for hundreds of miles. They will at first connect with the private houses of the wealthy; then with all homes. Great business establishments will extend them to stations, similar to our branch post-offices of today, whence fast automobile vehicles will distribute purchases from house to house.</strong></p><p></p><p>They thought this would be huge, and today, only banks and hosptials seem to really like using the tube system. But, you could say that Fed Ex airplanes do the same job as this prediction. Its fair. And the fast automoblie vehicles will distribute purchases from house to house-UPS, DSL, big rigs. Right on.</p><p></p><p><strong>Ready-cooked meals will be bought from establishments similar to our bakeries of today. They will purchase materials in tremendous wholesale quantities and sell the cooked foods at a price much lower than the cost of individual cooking.</strong></p><p></p><p>Welcome to Sam's Club! Hey, its COSTCO! Wait, it's MCDONALDS. Whatever you want to interpret this as-this was a damn good prediction.</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Food will be served hot or cold to private houses in pneumatic tubes or automobile wagons</strong></p><p><strong></strong> </p><p>In 30 minutes, or its free.......</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>The meal being over, the dishes used will be packed and returned to the cooking establishments where they will be washed.</strong></p><p><strong></strong> </p><p>That's called "catering."</p><p></p><p><strong>Such wholesale cookery will be done in electric laboratories rather than in kitchens. These laboratories will be equipped with electric stoves, and all sorts of electric devices, such as coffee-grinders, egg-beaters, stirrers, shakers, parers, meat-choppers, meat-saws, potato-mashers, lemon-squeezers, dish-washers, dish-dryers and the like.</strong></p><p><strong></strong> </p><p>Think of your big food processing plants. There you go. The prediction of processesed foods. With all the gadgetry we do have. Fabulous prediction.</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>All such utensils will be washed in chemicals fatal to disease microbes. Having one’s own cook and purchasing one’s own food will be an extravance.</strong></p><p><strong></strong> </p><p>This would be called a dishwasher. Having one's own cook IS an extravagance-and if you've gone grocery shopping lately, you'll see so is buying your own food. But +1 for the dishwasher predic.</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Vegetables Grown by Electricity. Winter will be turned into summer and night into day by the farmer. In cold weather he will place heat-conducting electric wires under the soil of his garden and thus warm his growing plants. He will also grow large gardens under glass. At night his vegetables will be bathed in powerful electric light, serving, like sunlight, to hasten their growth. Electric currents applied to the soil will make valuable plants grow larger and faster, and will kill troublesome weeds. Rays of colored light will hasten the growth of many plants.</strong></p><p><strong></strong> </p><p>Hydroponics, indoor greenhouses, and full-spectrum lighting.</p><p></p><p><strong>Fast-flying refrigerators on land and sea will bring delicious fruits from the tropics and southern temperate zone within a few days. The farmers of South America, South Africa, Australia and the South Sea Islands, whose seasons are directly opposite to ours, will thus supply us in winter with fresh summer foods, which cannot be grown here. Scientist will have discovered how to raise here many fruits now confined to much hotter or colder climates.</strong></p><p><strong></strong> </p><p>Of course. Why I can sit and munch on an Ugli fruit, here in Chicago.</p><p></p><p><strong>Few drugs will be swallowed or taken into the stomach unless needed for the direct treatment of that organ itself.</strong></p><p><strong></strong> </p><p>This is true in ER medicine. Most, if not all-by IV injection.</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>The living body will to all medical purposes be transparent. Not only will it be possible for a physician to actually see a living, throbbing heart inside the chest, but he will be able to magnify and photograph any part of it. This work will be done with rays of invisible light.</strong></p><p><strong></strong> </p><p>xrays. CT Scans. MRI's. PET scans. Bone density scans. Ultrasound. Excellent prediction.</p><p></p><p><strong>Food animals will be bred to expend practically all of their life energy in producing meat, milk, wool and other by-products. Horns, bones, muscles and lungs will have been neglected.</strong></p><p></p><p>In the US, anyway. We don't eat that crap.</p><p></p><p><strong>To England in Two Days. Fast electric ships, crossing the ocean at more than a mile a minute, will go from New York to Liverpool in two days. The bodies of these ships will be built above the waves. They will be supported upon runners, somewhat like those of the sleigh. These runners will be very buoyant. Upon their under sides will be apertures expelling jets of air. In this way a film of air will be kept between them and the water’s surface. This film, together with the small surface of the runners, will reduce friction against the waves to the smallest possible degree. Propellers turned by electricity will screw themselves through both the water beneath and the air above. Ships with cabins artificially cooled will be entirely fireproof. In storm they will dive below the water and there await fair weather.</strong></p><p><strong></strong> </p><p></p><p>Predicting a TiTANIC sort of ship, only faster. I say, airplane. Again, this was 11 years prior to the Titanic finish.</p><p></p><p>I'd say that these were remarkable predictions given the times-I mean, this was no HDRkid here. I am actually truly impressed with this. Wonder who made these predictions, and if similar people today could do the same thing.</p><p></p><p>Just think, all the stuff we have today that they DIDNT even mention LOL!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Risata, post: 38259, member: 8"] [b]Re: Predictions of the Year 2000 from The Ladies Home Journal of December 1900[/b] [B]Meanwhile both kinds of coal will have become more and more expensive. Man will have found electricity manufactured by waterpower to be much cheaper. [/B] Yep, and yep. When was Hoover Dam built? 22 years after this prediction, the design for it started. Today, we still look for alternative forms to generate our stuff. [B]Hot and Cold Air from Spigots. Hot or cold air will be turned on from spigots to regulate the temperature of a house as we now turn on hot or cold water from spigots to regulate the temperature of the bath. Central plants will supply this cool air and heat to city houses in the same way as now our gas or electricity is furnished. [/B] Central air conditioning and heat. [B]Rising early to build the furnace fire will be a task of the olden times. Homes will have no chimneys, because no smoke will be created within their walls. [/B] Thermostats. And Chimneys are now optional, no smoke is generated in the heating/cooling of homes, and today, I've noticed alot of new homes that don't even have a fireplace being built. [B]Store Purchases by Tube. Pneumatic tubes, instead of store wagons, will deliver packages and bundles. These tubes will collect, deliver and transport mail over certain distances, perhaps for hundreds of miles. They will at first connect with the private houses of the wealthy; then with all homes. Great business establishments will extend them to stations, similar to our branch post-offices of today, whence fast automobile vehicles will distribute purchases from house to house.[/B] They thought this would be huge, and today, only banks and hosptials seem to really like using the tube system. But, you could say that Fed Ex airplanes do the same job as this prediction. Its fair. And the fast automoblie vehicles will distribute purchases from house to house-UPS, DSL, big rigs. Right on. [B]Ready-cooked meals will be bought from establishments similar to our bakeries of today. They will purchase materials in tremendous wholesale quantities and sell the cooked foods at a price much lower than the cost of individual cooking.[/B] Welcome to Sam's Club! Hey, its COSTCO! Wait, it's MCDONALDS. Whatever you want to interpret this as-this was a damn good prediction. [B]Food will be served hot or cold to private houses in pneumatic tubes or automobile wagons [/B] In 30 minutes, or its free....... [B]The meal being over, the dishes used will be packed and returned to the cooking establishments where they will be washed. [/B] That's called "catering." [B]Such wholesale cookery will be done in electric laboratories rather than in kitchens. These laboratories will be equipped with electric stoves, and all sorts of electric devices, such as coffee-grinders, egg-beaters, stirrers, shakers, parers, meat-choppers, meat-saws, potato-mashers, lemon-squeezers, dish-washers, dish-dryers and the like. [/B] Think of your big food processing plants. There you go. The prediction of processesed foods. With all the gadgetry we do have. Fabulous prediction. [B]All such utensils will be washed in chemicals fatal to disease microbes. Having one’s own cook and purchasing one’s own food will be an extravance. [/B] This would be called a dishwasher. Having one's own cook IS an extravagance-and if you've gone grocery shopping lately, you'll see so is buying your own food. But +1 for the dishwasher predic. [B]Vegetables Grown by Electricity. Winter will be turned into summer and night into day by the farmer. In cold weather he will place heat-conducting electric wires under the soil of his garden and thus warm his growing plants. He will also grow large gardens under glass. At night his vegetables will be bathed in powerful electric light, serving, like sunlight, to hasten their growth. Electric currents applied to the soil will make valuable plants grow larger and faster, and will kill troublesome weeds. Rays of colored light will hasten the growth of many plants. [/B] Hydroponics, indoor greenhouses, and full-spectrum lighting. [B]Fast-flying refrigerators on land and sea will bring delicious fruits from the tropics and southern temperate zone within a few days. The farmers of South America, South Africa, Australia and the South Sea Islands, whose seasons are directly opposite to ours, will thus supply us in winter with fresh summer foods, which cannot be grown here. Scientist will have discovered how to raise here many fruits now confined to much hotter or colder climates. [/B] Of course. Why I can sit and munch on an Ugli fruit, here in Chicago. [B]Few drugs will be swallowed or taken into the stomach unless needed for the direct treatment of that organ itself. [/B] This is true in ER medicine. Most, if not all-by IV injection. [B]The living body will to all medical purposes be transparent. Not only will it be possible for a physician to actually see a living, throbbing heart inside the chest, but he will be able to magnify and photograph any part of it. This work will be done with rays of invisible light. [/B] xrays. CT Scans. MRI's. PET scans. Bone density scans. Ultrasound. Excellent prediction. [B]Food animals will be bred to expend practically all of their life energy in producing meat, milk, wool and other by-products. Horns, bones, muscles and lungs will have been neglected.[/B] In the US, anyway. We don't eat that crap. [B]To England in Two Days. Fast electric ships, crossing the ocean at more than a mile a minute, will go from New York to Liverpool in two days. The bodies of these ships will be built above the waves. They will be supported upon runners, somewhat like those of the sleigh. These runners will be very buoyant. Upon their under sides will be apertures expelling jets of air. In this way a film of air will be kept between them and the water’s surface. This film, together with the small surface of the runners, will reduce friction against the waves to the smallest possible degree. Propellers turned by electricity will screw themselves through both the water beneath and the air above. Ships with cabins artificially cooled will be entirely fireproof. In storm they will dive below the water and there await fair weather. [/B] Predicting a TiTANIC sort of ship, only faster. I say, airplane. Again, this was 11 years prior to the Titanic finish. I'd say that these were remarkable predictions given the times-I mean, this was no HDRkid here. I am actually truly impressed with this. Wonder who made these predictions, and if similar people today could do the same thing. Just think, all the stuff we have today that they DIDNT even mention LOL! [/QUOTE]
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