A seminary professor predicted the cellphone a century ago
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🗓️ 31 December 2025
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One hundred years ago, a seminary professor in Pennsylvania had the audacity to claim that by 2025, people would use a pocket-sized apparatus for communications to see and hear each other without being in the same room. Everyone knows that the future is unknowable. What we sometimes fail to understand is that the present is unknowable as well. Heisenberg’s “uncertainty principle” demonstrates that physicists cannot measure both the position and the speed of a particle at the same time. I say all of that to say this: The omniscient God who created and transcends time is our best source for facing our fears of the future.
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| 0:51.3 | Greetings. It's New Year's Eve, December the 31st, 2025. Welcome to the Daily Article |
| 0:57.9 | Podcast from Denison Forum. Today's daily article is written by our CEO, Dr. Jim Denison, |
| 1:04.7 | and narrated by your struly, Chris Elkins. Can you think of something you were afraid would happen this year but didn't? |
| 1:14.4 | Or that you were afraid would not happen but did? The 16th century French seer, Nostradamus, |
| 1:22.2 | was thought to predict for 2025 that a great pestilence from the past returns, no enemy more deadly under the skies, |
| 1:30.8 | leading some to claim that a pandemic worse than COVID-19 would arise during the year. |
| 1:37.0 | Others found in his writings a prediction of an asteroid impact with apocalyptic consequences. |
| 1:43.4 | He's been wrong so far, though the day and the year |
| 1:46.6 | are not yet over. A hundred years ago, the quote unquote experts predicted that by 2025, |
| 1:54.6 | people would live to be 150 years old. There would be only three nations, the United States, |
| 2:03.0 | the United States of Europe, and China. The Earth would utilize one common language. New York City would build triple and |
| 2:10.0 | quadruple deck streets to accommodate its traffic, and there would be world peace, a common world |
| 2:17.0 | currency, and universal free trade. And a seminary |
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