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This is Build for Tomorrow, a podcast about the smartest solutions to our most misunderstood problems. I'm Jason Pfeiffer, and in each episode, I take something that seems

concerning or confusing today and figure out where it came from, what important things

were missing, and how we can create more opportunity tomorrow. I have a very dorky annual

year-end tradition, and it goes like this. As we are about to enter a new year, I start to wonder what did people from

100 years ago think this year would be like? So, for example, as we are to enter the year

23, I start to wonder, what did people of 1923 think 2023 would be like? And as it turns out, this is not actually a very hard question

to answer because of newspaper archives. Every year, I just go to newspapers.com, which is the

archive that I happen to use. And I go to newspapers from 100 years ago. So, for example, in this case, I go to newspapers from 1923.

And then I just search the term, the year 2023.

What comes up is always an amusing smattering of predictions because people from 100 years

ago loved predicting what 100 years later would look like. It was generally

a mixture of experts and like school children for some reason, and they say all sorts of

fascinating stuff. Some of it is, well, incorrect. For example, there was one year where I saw

them predict that Mexico would be the world's leading power

in a hundred years, and also that flying cars would be so common that there would no longer

be doors in the front of buildings down on the ground level, because, you know, nobody would

be entering buildings from the ground anymore. So all the entrance doors would be at the very top. But like I said,

there were also very real predictions. For example, that in 100 years, people would be able to

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