Good Morning .
These Predictions were made years ago by prominent people but just never came to be.
Nobody will work, and we’ll all be rich: In 1966, Time magazine predicted that “machines will be producing so much that everyone will be independently wealthy.” Without lifting a finger, the average family could expect to earn a salary of $30,000 – $40,000. That’d be around $300,000 now.
All roads will become tubes: A 1957 Popular Mechanics article said that every street in America will be “replaced by a network of pneumatic tubes.” Your car would only need power to get from your home to the nearest tube. Then, “they will be pneumatically powered to any desired destination.” (I wonder if Elon Musk is working on this…)
C, X and Q will be eliminated: In 1900, John Elfreth Watkins Jr., the curator of mechanical technology at the Smithsonian Institution, predicted that those three letters would become unnecessary. He said that by now, we’d be spelling mostly by sound and would communicate with “condensed words”. ( talk to text ring any bells )
No more coffee, tea or tobacco: In 1937, Nikola Tesla predicted that “within a century, coffee, tea, and tobacco will be no longer be in vogue.” He wrote that “It will simply be no longer fashionable to poison the system with harmful ingredients.” (Not until someone comes up with something better!)
Flying houses: Arthur C. Clarke — who wrote “2001: A Space Odyssey” — believed that houses of the future would have nothing keeping them on the ground and they would be able to move to anywhere on earth on a whim. In fact, he even suggested that whole communities would be able to fly south for winter.
Human feet will become one big toe: In a 1911 lecture at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, surgeon Richard Clement Lucas said that the “useless outer toes” will become used less and less, so that “man might become a one-toed race.”
We’ll have ape chauffeurs: In 1994, the RAND Corporation, a global think tank that’s contributed to the space program and the development of the internet, said they expected us to have animal employees by the year 2020.
