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Pretty amazing how accurate some of it turned out to be - I'd  be amazing to go back in time and let them know how it turned out :P

What do you think the future might hold?

i like how he states that food animals will only bread to produce meat milk wool and other by-products, while their muscles will be neglected.

what does he think meat is?

I wish the flies prediction was true.

Annoying bastards.

I want a strawberry the size of an apple. A*tually, I have seen some pretty small apples and some e**essively large strawberries. It's *ool to see what people thought of the future 100 years ago. Will people look back 100 years from now and muse about how simple our lives were? They almost *ertainly will.

100 years from now people will tell their children stories about everyone having their own car, most families 2 or more. People driving 50 miles just to go to a restaurant or cinema. Hopping in the car to get a coffee from a drive-thru. Flying half way around the world for a vacation or a business meeting. People eating meat every day. Game consoles that draw 25% the power of a microwave continuously. Large houses with heating and air conditioning in every room. Heated pools in the backyard. The age of free energy.

Wh1pL4shL1ve_007 said: I wish the flies prediction was true. Annoying bastards.

And it may yet be true. My girlfriends uncle's job is to find ways of eradicating (disease carrying) species of flies.

Although apparently eradication attempts of the mosquito several decades ago only resulted in one species speciating into seven new species, which makes them far harder to eradicate now. Pretty scary huh? So in that respect, maybe trying to destroy all flies would make things worse, not better.

LOL at walking ten miles. Way to go Americans, we really screwed up on that one!

How did these guys think that the letter C would be taken out of our alphabet? xD

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