[In the year 2000] no Mosquitoes nor Flies. Insect screens will be unnecessary. Mosquitoes, house-flies and roaches will have been practically exterminated. Boards of health will have destroyed all mosquito haunts and breeding-grounds, drained all stagnant pools, filled in all swamp-lands, and chemically treated all still-water streams.
-The Ladies Home Journal, December 1900
[In the year 2000] etiquette and housekeeping will be important studies in the public schools.
-The Ladies Home Journal, December 1900
By the year 2020, five per cent of the world's population will have emigrated into space. Many will have visited the moon and beyond.
-Weekend Magazine, July 1961
[Our children] will get pills to make them learn faster. We shall be healthier, too. There will be no common colds, cancer, tooth decay or mental illness.
-Weekend Magazine, July 1961
[An English scientist] believes that it will be enough to dig a hole of several kilometers and there find the heat needed by all the industry. The water in such a deepness will be so hot, that all the machines in the whole world could be powered by it. [In the year 2000].
-Pressburger Zeitung, March 1922
-Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
-Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.
-Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859.
"Self-operating [vacuum] cleaners powered by nuclear energy will probably be a reality a decade from now."
– Alex Lewyt, president of vacuum cleaner company Lewyt Corp., in the New York Times in 1955
Democracy will be dead by 1950.
-John Langdon-Davies, A Short History of The Future, 1936.
And for the tourist who really wants to get away from it all, safaris in Vietnam
-Newsweek, predicting popular holidays for the late 1960s.
A 1930s fashion prediction for the year 2000, by fashion designers:
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