In 1900, Ladies’ Home Journal Publishes 28 Predictions for the Year 2000

[LumosMaxima]

You can click on the pic of the magazine page to enlarge:

http://www.openculture.com/2013/12/ladies-home-journal-publishes-28-predictions.html

[liberal N proud]

1. Amazing how accurate they were

[OffWithTheirHeads]

2. Amazing how much they got right, sorta.

[Scuba]

3. Some right, some wrong. Still waiting for the big strawberries and free university education.

[Ptah]

4. Oranges will grow in Philadelphia. (link to text)

Oranges will grow in Philadelphia. Fast-flying refrigerators on land and sea will bring delicious fruits
from the tropics and southern temperate zone within a few days. The farmers of South America,
South Africa, Australia and the South Sea Islands, whose seasons are directly opposite to ours,
will thus supply us in winter with fresh summer foods, which cannot be grown here. Scientist will
have discovered how to raise here many fruits now confined to much hotter or colder climates.
Delicious oranges will be grown in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Cantaloupes and other summer fruits
will be of such a hardy nature that they can be stored through the winter as potatoes are now.

Strawberries as large as apples will be eaten by our great great grandchildren for their Christmas
dinners a hundred years hence. Raspberries and blackberries will be as large. One will suffice for the
fruit course of each person. Strawberries and cranberries will be grown upon tall bushes. Cranberries,
gooseberries and currants will be as large as oranges. One cantaloupe will supply an entire family.
Melons, cherries, grapes, plums, apples, pears, peaches and all berries will be seedless.
Figs will be cultivated over the entire United States.


http://yorktownhistory.org/wp-content/archives/homepages/1900_predictions.htm

[hunter]

6. The person who wrote that was hungry for fruit...

If I had a time machine I'd sent them some.

[Dash87]

5. If only the author could see society now.

Many of the predictions were not only right, but were topped. I wonder what the author would think or say if he saw a robot?

[sinkingfeeling]

7. They really missed the boat on Americans exercising and being healthy.

[handmade34]

8. k&r...

interesting