Predictions of 2011, from a 1911 newspaper

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gumby_trucker said:

radishhead said:
I also find it funny that they were like "you won't believe this, but the Earth's population should reach as high as 500 million people" - turns out they lowballed that one considerably

that number was for the US population, and it was a high estimate from them. Considering they also mentioned many more countries joining the union, I'd say it wasn't such a bad estimate.

on the other hand, a quick google search shows that they did manage to get the part about cars costing less than horses wrong

you don't know our olympic hope then! 10 million euro lol