A swing in a miss...well expect for the part about Mexico joining the American union

Until I read this, I always used the "Ladies Home Journal" for my prognosticing needs. Now I might have to go elsewhere. ;)

There was a similar list put together by SF writers in the 50's. I will try to find a link and post it. (If any of you other SF buffs know the link, post it for me. I won't be too upset.)

Lots of these are quite interesting.

I'd say more people uses planes than boats to get to places, wouldn't you?

If only!

Maybe not newspapers, perhaps text-fiends, though.

Now, how do we stop global warming? Any tips, past folks?

Not too many horses here in Accra, but I must say that I wish the first part of that prediction had come true. Sadly, the mosquito (and its parasite, malaria) is still here to test us.

And from another angle, "stagnant pools" and "swamp-lands" have progressed from being waterbodies that should be filled in our chemically treated, to wetlands that should be protected and preserved...

Almost no comment needed. We didn't need 100 years to get much further in this direction than even imagined. This husband in Ghana is able to have long (and free) nightly voice conversations with his wife in the Netherlands.

He also discusses news and debates issues with people all over the world, at all hours of the every night and day...

I wonder how far we'll be in another 100 years?

Rambler, lets see if people are here in 100 years. I don't think overpopulation will be a problem at this point, if you catch my drift. Such a shame, really. ha ha.

Hi there, "thing", well, I do think people will be around in one way or another, we are pretty good at brinkmanship, and then crawling back from disaster at the last possible moment. (I mean we go almost all the way towards mass extinction and then, at the last moment, we get a little breath of sanity.... until the next time.)

So - people will still be around, but whether you or I would enjoy life, that's another question altogether...

dunno why you are putting this down, lots of things in there are absolutely great!
Prediction #29: 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.

I know I was just reading about some guys working on that very thing..

as for strawberries the size of apples.. well here I am thinking about real apples ya know the kind that ya can actually grow on trees not the huge glossy red ones from the grocery store.. what size apples did they have 107 years ago? maybe them giant plump strawberries I love so much ARE the size of a 1900 apple shrug*

#23 is actually kinda true if you read between the lines
#27 was obvious by 1900, as the case with quite a few of these they seem to best guesses from the latest of things come to light at the time .. which seems like what I would do if trying to make 100yr predictions hehe

Can't speak for the others, but I don't think I was putting it down. I upvoted the link and made a joke about this coming from a suprising publication. Most of the rest of the comments didn't seem to be put downs and the article is ranked pretty high.