How To Live Like Ancient Royalty

Build For Tomorrow

Jason Feifer

Business, History, Technology, Entrepreneurship

4.7 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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What was once only available to kings and queens, but that you can do today? The answer: Shocking stuff you've never even thought of. If you ever worry that our world is in decline, this episode can help put that in perspective. We also look at some amazing predictions from 1921 about 2021, and see how we’re living in the world they only fantasized about. Get in touch! Web: jasonfeifer.com Instagram: @heyfeifer Twitter: @heyfeifer Newsletter: jasonfeifer.bulletin.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:26.9	Visit petjavity.com.uk for full details. This is Build For Tomorrow, a podcast about the things
0:33.2	from history that shaped us and how we can shape the future. I'm Jason Pfeiffer.
0:38.2	Do you ever wonder how people of the past imagined our lives today?
0:42.5	I wonder this all the time, actually.
0:45.2	I'm a little obsessed with it.
0:46.5	In fact, I have this dorky annual tradition.
0:49.0	At the end of every year, I dig into newspaper archives
0:52.2	to see what people from a century earlier had predicted about
0:55.7	our lives today. So, for example, what did people of the year 1919 say about the year 2019?
1:02.8	What did people of 1920 say about the year 2020? The answer is always a delight. They imagined
1:09.3	futuristic technology and changing cultural boundaries,
1:12.5	which are usually a little right and a little wrong. In a newspaper from 1920, for example,
1:17.7	I discovered a burlesque show set in the year 2020, which envisioned a crazy world where,
1:23.9	get this, men dress like women and women dress like men and men stay at home while
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