/r/pastpredictions

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Historic predictions of the future, either shockingly accurate or hilariously incorrect.

Historic predictions of the future, either shockingly accurate or hilariously incorrect.

Rules:

1) Posts should be images or articles regarding historic predictions of the future.

2) Title should include the date when the prediction was made if known.

Similar subreddits:

/r/retrofuturism

/r/historymemes

/r/alternatehistory

/r/thewaywewere

/r/historywhatif

/r/pastpredictions

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Comic book doing a decent job of predicting modern bullet trains (1939)

1 Comment
2024/03/12
22:01 UTC

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[December 14th, 1923] "1940 Poison Gas War. When London Will Be Desolated by Deadly Fumes from Aeroplanes. "There was no impossibility in killing by hundreds of thousands men, women and children in the City of London by poisonous gases from fleets of aeroplanes.""

0 Comments
2023/12/14
19:31 UTC

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W. K. Haselden’s ‘The Pocket Telephone: When Will it Ring?’ was first published in The Mirror, 1919

0 Comments
2023/10/24
08:37 UTC

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[August 29th, 1923] "A Hundred Years Hence. Professor's Vision of Warfare. How We Shall Fight in A.D. 2023."

0 Comments
2023/08/30
12:08 UTC

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I cannot believe a ridiculous Cyanide & Happiness joke became reality.

0 Comments
2023/08/09
04:03 UTC

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This aged pretty well

0 Comments
2023/07/25
09:28 UTC

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Reddit user predicts the Olympics will happen in 2020 (2019)

0 Comments
2023/04/27
03:53 UTC

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"The Future of Trinity Church" Puck illustration from 1907, by Albert Levering.

0 Comments
2023/04/26
20:58 UTC

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"Licensed to Fly: The Mail Dirigible of the Future" - Illustrated London News; 16 January, 1909

1 Comment
2023/01/25
18:40 UTC

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[January 16, 2023] "Wireless Phone Predicted Soon", Indianapolis Times.

2 Comments
2023/01/16
23:26 UTC

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How We Will Explore the Moon - 1959

0 Comments
2023/01/08
22:27 UTC

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How Experts Think We'll Live in 2000 A.D. (1950)

1 Comment
2023/01/06
17:48 UTC

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This was in a DK book from 2007. How'd we do?

1 Comment
2022/12/15
01:32 UTC

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"Future Cities: Homes & Living Into the 21st Century" from Usborne Book of the Future - 1980

0 Comments
2022/07/17
20:43 UTC

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A 50-man space station envisioned for 1975 by NASA Engineer Georg von Tiesenhausen, in 1970

0 Comments
2022/06/12
23:25 UTC

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"Freight Loader for the Airships of Tomorrow" - 1920

1 Comment
2022/03/21
22:51 UTC

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April 18, 1963, News-Journal newspaper article about the future of phones

3 Comments
2022/03/16
04:38 UTC

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Wearable Helicopter from unknown magazine - January 1952

3 Comments
2021/06/04
21:01 UTC

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1979 Film Predicts Dawn of the Computer Age

2 Comments
2021/04/28
15:55 UTC

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Googlezon: Media of the Future (2004)

0 Comments
2021/04/28
14:46 UTC

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Computer predicts the end of civilization (1973)

0 Comments
2021/02/12
20:38 UTC

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Predictions from (1986) This 18 year old guy, in his last day of high school, made a video with observations and predictions about life 20 years in the future.

0 Comments
2021/02/04
00:30 UTC

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