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Results: January Promotion--Predictions for 2024 #1.100-year-old predictions about 2024, which do you think will come true?

Published on 01/09/2024

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Nearly 100 years ago, a group of visionaries dared to imagine what life would be like in 2024. Some of their prophecies fell woefully short while others proved to be strangely accurate.
Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/01/06/world-peace-plane-commutes-100-year-old-predictions-2024/72087255007/

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January Promotion--Predictions for 2024. 100-year-old predictions about 2024, which do you think will come true or already have? Select all that apply.

A new era of peace through Hollywood- Movie mogul D.W. Griffith, the director of "Birth of a Nation," believed that motion pictures would help usher in a new era of peace.

193 votes

Urban renewal ahead- Swedish architect Ben Bjorkson predicted that U.S. metropolises would demolish giant swaths of cities "to alter the architectural plans of towns originally built by men to whom the automobile was only a fantastic dream." "In the city of a hundred years from now, I see three-deck roads, speedways through the heart of town, skyscrapers with entrances for automobiles as high as 15 stories, monorail expresses to the suburbs replacing streetcars and motor-omnibuses, ever-moving sidewalks and underground freight carriers which will go in all directions, serving all railway stations and business districts, and which will replace to a large extent the heavy trucks and wagons of today," Bjorkson noted.

15%

377 votes

Horses go extinct- Professor E.L. Furlong, curator of the vertebrate collection at the University of Southern California, worried that horses might be on the brink of extinction by 2024. "Before many years, the use of a horse for the purposes with which he has been identified since time immemorial will be a curiosity. In another hundred years, you may find horses in zoos. I am sure you will not find them anywhere else."

160 votes

Women take charge- Perhaps he was being facetious, but Frank L. Ferraro mapped out a clear vision of the future in a 1924 letter to the New York Daily News. "Has anyone ever stopped to think how this country will be a hundred years from now? Just imagine: We will have a woman president, woman politicians and police," Ferraro wrote. "As women will occupy all the highest positions, naturally men will be compelled to do all the labor; those who are not physically fit for such arduous jobs will have to stay home and wait on the babies (or mind the pets).

24%

615 votes

Average life expectancy of 100- Sir Kingsley Wood, a British politician speaking at a 1924 dinner in London, told his audience that "there was no doubt that by 2024 the average expectation of life would be at least 100 years old, and a person at 75 would be a comparatively young man."

19%

482 votes

Working from home- Archibald M. Low, a British scientist, imagined something that sounded eerily like the internet in his 1924 book "Wireless Possibilities." "What a help to the man who objects to a large city! Why could he not conduct his business from his house in comfort instead of having his spats washed every week in order to maintain his financial reputation."

43%

1113 votes

Daily airplane commute - New York City real estate mogul Joseph P. Day expected the daily commute to work would be a lot different in 2024. "The airplane is in its infancy, but its development as a commercial proposition will move rapidly from now on. When this method of transportation is perfected and the sky is black with aerial flivvers, it will be the everyday occurrence for the businessman to fly from home to office and back home again."

235 votes

A need for birth limits - Dr. Leland Ossian Howard, leader of the bureau of entomology in Washington, D.C., warned that the world of 2024 would be overpopulated and hungry unless drastic action was taken. "At the present rate, the world will be decidedly overpopulated 100 years from today," he explained. "Something will have to be done to care for this population. Births will have to be limited in some manner for the earth cannot supply food for an excess population."

19%

487 votes

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27%

704 votes

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