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#739799 - 01/11/12 10:21 AM
Ten 100-year predictions that came true
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It is the beginning of the year so as usual forecasts are being made as to what the next months, or years, could hold for us. But this is nothing new, as going back in history to over one hundred years ago, in December 1900, an American civil engineer, John Elfreth Watkins, published his ideas of What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years in Ladies' Home Journal.
They have just been republished, and although they must have sounded bizarre at the time, even he said 'These prophecies will seem strange, almost impossible', quite a few of them, such as color photography and television have come to pass.
Although he did get some wrong, such as his idea of a world in which, Mosquitoes, house-flies and roaches will have been exterminated, when at the moment the bed bug is making an unwanted reappearance in the US and some other countries.
Ten 100 Year Predictions that came true
Edited by Francine - German Culture (01/11/12 10:28 AM)
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Francine McKenna-Klein - German Culture Editor German Culture Site - German Culture Facebook Avatar: HOHENZOLLERNBRUECKE Cologne, the CATHEDRAL and LUDWIG MUSEUM. Photo "Der Wolf im Wald". The EU won the 2012 Nobel Prize for Peace and "The European Dove of Peace 2012" by Plantu is added. Western Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.
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