Results: 2019 Will Be A Very Good Year
Published on 12/31/2018
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2019 is only hours away (as of this moment of course) and if you really want to feel "old", look at this list of things that will be turning "19" in 2019, or celebrating their "Champagne" birthday this year. How many of these are you surprised to see are turning 19 this year?
Mini Oreos
17%
412 votes
Survivor
18%
433 votes
Razor Scooters
10%
228 votes
Dora the Explorer
21%
512 votes
Hollister Clothing Chain
6%
141 votes
Even Stevens TV show
4%
97 votes
"Kryptonite" by 3 Doors Down
9%
224 votes
"Oops!... I Did It Again" by Britney Spears
18%
432 votes
Windows 2000
11%
275 votes
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
18%
443 votes
Surprised by all of these
13%
320 votes
None surprise me
41%
981 votes
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But 19 is merely a baby compared to these centenarian that will be turning 100 this year. How many did you know about?
The Grand Canyon is turning 100 years old in 2019. The Grand Canyon was officially made a National Park on February 26, 1919. In honor of the centennial, Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University, and Grand Canyon National Park have partnered to produce "100 Years of Grand" – a centennial project to showcase archival materials around the early years of Grand Canyon.
12%
292 votes
Bentley will turn 100 years old on July 10, 2019. The automotive company today manufactures every car at the Bentley factory in Crewe, north-west of England, by a team of some 4,000 highly-skilled people. Bentley has come a long way since its first prototype crafted in a humble London mews, and later the original 3 Litre, to the very much refined vehicles of modern era.
8%
181 votes
Junior Achievement is celebrating its centennial in 2019. The organization was founded in 1919 in Springfield, Massachusetts by business leaders Horace Moses, founder of Strathmore Paper Company, and Theodore Vail, Chairman of AT&T, and with the support of Murray Crane, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts. The original purpose of JA was to help teens moving from rural America to the industrial cities gain the skills they would need to be successful adults.
5%
117 votes
KitchenAid turns 100 in 2019, and has been manufacturing kitchen appliances since the the KitchenAid stand mixer was introduced all those years ago
9%
224 votes
The Negroni turns 100 in 2019. The famous Italian cocktail is made of one part gin, one part vermouth rosso (red, semi-sweet), and one part Campari, garnished with orange peel. It is considered an apéritif.
2%
44 votes
The pop-up toaster turns 100 and was invented by Charles Strite, during World War I, when the master mechanic in a plant in Stillwater, Minnesota decided to do something about the burnt toast served in the company cafeteria.
8%
196 votes
Knew all of these
6%
139 votes
None
71%
1695 votes
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35 years ago, in 1983, science fiction writer Isaac Asimov was asked by the Toronto Star to give his predictions for 2019 It was a fitting time to pose the question, the Star's editors figured, because 1983 was 35 years after George Orwell penned 1984. Sadly Asimov died in 1992, so is not alive to see what indeed 2019 will hold for us all. Here are a few of his predictions. Do you feel he was correct with any of his predictions?
"Computerization will undoubtedly continue onward inevitably."
43%
1039 votes
The "mobile computerized object" will "penetrate the home," and the increasing complexity of society will make it impossible to live without this technology.
39%
924 votes
Computers will disrupt work habits and replace old jobs with ones that are radically different.
39%
939 votes
Robotics will kill "routine clerical and assembly-line jobs."
33%
791 votes
Society will need a "vast change in the nature of education must take place, and entire populations must be made "computer-literate" and must be taught to deal with a "high-tech" world."
35%
845 votes
This education transition will be difficult for many, especially as world population grows at unprecedented rates.
24%
567 votes
Humans would be "back on the moon in force" with mining operations, factories that "use of the special properties of space," observatories and even a solar power station that would beam microwaves back to Earth.
5%
125 votes
"By 2019, the first space settlement should be on the drawing boards; and may perhaps be under actual construction. It would be the first of many in which human beings could live by the tens of thousands, and in which they could build small societies of all kinds, lending humanity a further twist of variety."
8%
188 votes
None of them came true
24%
579 votes
I feel all of them came true
21%
498 votes
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