/r/pastpredictions
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.
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[October 4th, 1924] Food scientist William Boyce Thompson predicts that in or around 2024, food will become so scarce as to bring most American families near to starvation
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2024/10/04
19:01 UTC
19:01 UTC
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[September 25th, 1924] The Daily Telegraph newspaper predicts that 100 years from now, in 2024, the average lifespan will be 100 years, and that 75-year-olds will be considered “comparatively young.”
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2024/09/26
11:29 UTC
11:29 UTC
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[September 20th, 1924] The Washington Star newspaper claims that 100 years from now, horses will no longer exists as automobiles dominate the road
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2024/09/20
17:44 UTC
17:44 UTC
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Comic book doing a decent job of predicting modern bullet trains (1939)
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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.""
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2023/12/14
19:31 UTC
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
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2023/10/24
08:37 UTC
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."
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2023/08/30
12:08 UTC
12:08 UTC
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I cannot believe a ridiculous Cyanide & Happiness joke became reality.
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2023/08/09
04:03 UTC
04:03 UTC
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This aged pretty well
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2023/07/25
09:28 UTC
09:28 UTC
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Reddit user predicts the Olympics will happen in 2020 (2019)
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2023/04/27
03:53 UTC
03:53 UTC
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"The Future of Trinity Church" Puck illustration from 1907, by Albert Levering.
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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
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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
23:26 UTC
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How We Will Explore the Moon - 1959
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2023/01/08
22:27 UTC
22:27 UTC
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How Experts Think We'll Live in 2000 A.D. (1950)
2 Comments
2023/01/06
17:48 UTC
17:48 UTC
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This was in a DK book from 2007. How'd we do?
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2022/12/15
01:32 UTC
01:32 UTC
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"Future Cities: Homes & Living Into the 21st Century" from Usborne Book of the Future - 1980
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2022/07/17
20:43 UTC
20:43 UTC
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A 50-man space station envisioned for 1975 by NASA Engineer Georg von Tiesenhausen, in 1970
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2022/06/12
23:25 UTC
23:25 UTC
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"Freight Loader for the Airships of Tomorrow" - 1920
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2022/03/21
22:51 UTC
22:51 UTC
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April 18, 1963, News-Journal newspaper article about the future of phones
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2022/03/16
04:38 UTC
04:38 UTC
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Wearable Helicopter from unknown magazine - January 1952
3 Comments
2021/06/04
21:01 UTC
21:01 UTC
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1979 Film Predicts Dawn of the Computer Age
2 Comments
2021/04/28
15:55 UTC
15:55 UTC
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Googlezon: Media of the Future (2004)
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2021/04/28
14:46 UTC
14:46 UTC
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Computer predicts the end of civilization (1973)
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2021/02/12
20:38 UTC
20:38 UTC
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