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welcome to the conkey ride home for thursday January 6th, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today.

A look at predictions for today from a 1922 article in the New York Herald.

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Retro-futurism is one of my favorite trends, especially mid-20th century speculations on what the future will be like, or new technologies and interior design choices that were made to be evocative of the future as they imagined it, basically all of the Jetsons.

But it's also fascinating to go back even further and see what people, even more

removed from our present time, thought might have happened by now. And often these predictions

are just as off base as some of the retrofuturist style flying cars and domestic robots of the Jetsons.

But a 1922 piece in the New York Herald that was recently re-upped on Y Combinators Hacker

Newsboards proves that sometimes predictions about the future can be surprisingly measured,

pragmatic, and therefore quite prescient. Written by columnist W.L. George on May 7th, 1922,

and preserved by the U.S. Library of Congress, the piece

What the World Will Be Like in a hundred years. Does have a few ideas that are a little off-base,

but often combined with ones that are really on point. He predicts wireless telephones and the

erasure of power lines. So yes and no.

He says coal and oil reserves will be seriously depleted, and we will probably get energy from the tides, the sun, and radium.

Again, yes and no.

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