A List of Predictions Made in 1925 About 2025
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Women will dress logically in one-piece hygienic suits
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People will live to 150
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There will be nothing to laugh at
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Food will be delivered by tubes from communal kitchens
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Giant aeroplanes will fly 50 passengers between London and Paris in only a couple of hours
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Crime will be treated as a disease
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People will be awakened by radio alarm clocks and baldness will be almost universal
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San Francisco will be the greatest city in the world
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We will run out of oil
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Smoking will be a thing of the past
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Books will be printed on nickel leaves and will contain 30,000 pages
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Canada will have a population of 100,000,000
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Banking and burglary will be wireless
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@paulisci they were really onto that "wireless" thing, weren't they?
And this is not too far of, giving sniffers and relays for wireless key fobs.
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@crypticcelery @paulisci and also just electronic hacking in general. I'd say this one is a 10000% correct slam dunk homerun. You can literally hack entire bank accounts and steal whole identities over Wifi chilling in a park on the other side of the planet ...
I'm pretty sure they mean something like the internet with this wireless thing. After all, wifi uses radio waves. And they already predict a worldwide internet too, so...
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@UkeBLCatboy @paulisci true.
I have said it before and will say it again: The Internet (and mobile endpoints) was such a profoundly transformative innovation that it not only changed our world, but almost every fictional world as well.
Things like messaging spells and technological equivalents really started to pop up (with a few exceptions) once we had that kind of stuff in the real
world.
Suggesting it was kind of unthinkable before.
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@crypticcelery @paulisci was it though? The first messages across the ocean were sent in the 1800s. Radio communicators and telephones could easily cover countries / continents in the early 1900s, and mobile phones appeared well before the world wide web.
Like of course it was a huge Innovation, but messaging across huge distances in real time was already possibly waaayyy before the internet, so messaging spells of all things I'd expect to have been thinkable at least since the telephone right?
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@UkeBLCatboy @crypticcelery @paulisci They were available, but not as an everyday utility. Within my lifetime there was advertising for international calls on Sunday nights, when a few minutes of call was affordable by an everyday family.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmn5cI5D4rc
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@glent @crypticcelery @paulisci sure, but I doubted the idea that messaging was unthinkable to ever exist before the internet as they put it. Considering telegrams predates it by over a century, and the telephone too (at least the www and at home internet at a large scale, and almost if we start at arpanet), and radio almost, I find that hard to believe.
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@UkeBLCatboy @glent @crypticcelery @paulisci we lived through it. it seems incredibly obvious in hindsight, but most people live in the present moment, not the future.
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@UkeBLCatboy @glent @crypticcelery @paulisci like, as a closeted queer child, of course we saw the potential - we were optimally placed for that. most people around us absolutely did not see it and thought we were weird for spending time on the computer.
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@UkeBLCatboy @glent @crypticcelery @paulisci it's honestly kind of disorienting to live in a world, in 2025, where the people who identify as normal think not using a smartphone constantly is weird.
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@ireneista @glent @crypticcelery @paulisci lol I get what you mean xD
Luckily I'm quite normal in that regard ๐ unless you count mostly using my computer at home lmao
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@UkeBLCatboy @glent @crypticcelery @paulisci haha fair :D
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