shadowcat1313 Posted April 27, 2007 Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 the folks on the Bureau 13 list pointed this out, its a list of predictions made in a 1900 issue of the Ladies Home Journal http://www.yorktownhistory.org/homepages/1900_predictions.htm makes some interesting reading Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clonus Posted April 27, 2007 Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 Re: Predictions for the year 2000 His batting average wasn't bad at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost-angel Posted April 27, 2007 Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 Re: Predictions for the year 2000 #3 had me laughing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorpheousXO Posted April 29, 2007 Report Share Posted April 29, 2007 Re: Predictions for the year 2000 Though honestly it's interesting how many were actually correct (or at least partially correct... THEY PREDICTED FAST FOOD... after a fashion). Just remember, electricity is the answer to all the worlds problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 Re: Predictions for the year 2000 Pardon the derailment. On a related note, I just found The 2007 Outlook Report for the future. No, I don't know much about this organization. I just learned about it today while lurking in the GURPS forums. Still, I find it interesting enough to take a closer look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clonus Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 Re: Predictions for the year 2036 http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/5CB29DC4-9B4A-4DFD-B363-3282BE255CE7/0/strat_trends_23jan07.pdf Someone's been reading a little too much cyberpunk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basil Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 Re: Predictions for the year 2000 Though honestly it's interesting how many were actually correct (or at least partially correct... THEY PREDICTED FAST FOOD... after a fashion). Just remember, electricity is the answer to all the worlds problems. And telephones! Don't forget telephones! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handleyj Posted May 10, 2007 Report Share Posted May 10, 2007 Re: Predictions for the year 2000 Sounds to me like they predicted the Internet (or at least TV) back in 1900: Prediction #10: Man will See Around the World. Persons and things of all kinds will be brought within focus of cameras connected electrically with screens at opposite ends of circuits, thousands of miles at a span. ...The instrument bringing these distant scenes to the very doors of people will be connected with a giant telephone apparatus transmitting each incidental sound in its appropriate place.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merovign Posted May 14, 2007 Report Share Posted May 14, 2007 Re: Predictions for the year 2000 It's always fun to play with alternative histories - and there are plenty of them out there to play with. You could have a really fun campaign (or at least fun designing one) based on some of these "future lists" from the past, World's Fair predictions, alternate history books, etc. Interestingly enough, regarding fast food, they had "burger joints" in ancient Greece, where they served fresh-cooked hamburgers (with pine nuts!) on buns to passers-by. Some of these predictions came true, and it's an interesting intellectual exercise to figure out why the ones that didn't, didn't. Some of them are obviously physics, some obviously economics, some human nature. But it's always fun to think about "worlds of tomorrow!" It's no great surprise that a circa-1900 list was of a highly ordered world, Victorian or late 40s-50s worlds tended to be optimistic and highly technically-based, and 60s predictions more pessimistic. Oh, and the 70s. Buck Rogers, need I say more? Each and every predicted future could be a campaign, a strange world visited in a campaign, etc. You could do a "Star-Trek"-style "Strange New World of The Week" campaign for quite a while based on nothing but predictions of the future world from our own history. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted May 22, 2007 Report Share Posted May 22, 2007 Re: Predictions for the year 2000 My Gods. Some of that was way out there. Some fell short (the average American will "live fifty years instead of thirty five.") And some was startlingly on target. Lucius Alexander And the inevitable palindromedary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USAFguy Posted May 24, 2007 Report Share Posted May 24, 2007 Re: Predictions for the year 2000 I do find the predictions from 1900 a bit suspect. Some of them are just a little too close. Perhaps they were actually written in 1999? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatDarnCat Posted May 24, 2007 Report Share Posted May 24, 2007 Re: Predictions for the year 2000 There is an interesting book trilogy by Phil Pullman His Dark Materials that starts in a world a lot like ours, but diffurrent and it was fun to try to pick out what things named in that world are in ours. One was Coal Silk. It took me quite a while to figure out that it was plastic/nylon from the usage. Using these perditions, and a little philology, you could come up with an interesting 'modern setting' that just isn't our modern setting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narratio Posted June 2, 2007 Report Share Posted June 2, 2007 Re: Predictions for the year 2000 Prediction #24: Vegetables Grown by Electricity... 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. Electricity applied to garden seeds will make them sprout and develop unusually early. Okay, but they left out that screams and shouts of "It's alive!" will occur when the Brocolli breaks its restraints and strangles the assitant gardener with its power cable. I'm going to giggle over the "silent city" prediction for some time though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outsider Posted June 8, 2007 Report Share Posted June 8, 2007 Re: Predictions for the year 2000 My Gods. Some of that was way out there. Some fell short (the average American will "live fifty years instead of thirty five.") And some was startlingly on target. Lucius Alexander And the inevitable palindromedary Actually, according to the Centers for Disease Control, we were already living to fifty (on average) instead of thirty five in 1900. And that 50 includes infant mortality dragging the average down. I suspect shenanigans on this also. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/tables/2003/03hus027.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 Re: Predictions for the year 2000 The 2007 outloook: #6: Enforcing wireless tech into out brains? Possibly, but some of the conspiracy theorist and diehards (and me) will definitely be opposed to doing that to ourselves. #8 Not to start a global-warming argument but what they are describing is not global warming disasters, they seem to be describing a "people too stupid not to live on the coast but rather want to live on the coast" disasters. More people live on the coast, more people are prone to bad things happening to them via tsunamis/hurricanes. #9 Well, of course people will work longer into life in the future. Without Social Security they cant afford to retire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 Re: Predictions for the year 2000 #9 Well, of course people will work longer into life in the future. Without Social Security they cant afford to retire. Well, Social Security didn't come into existence for another 35 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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