Men with curly hair. Cozies for your internal organs. Here's what people thought 2023 would look like, 100 years ago. Some have proven more accurate than others.
"In reading a forecast of 2023 when many varieties of aircraft are flying thru the heavens, we do not begin the day by reading the world's news, but by listening to it for the newspaper has gone out of business more than half a century before," wroteFairie told NPR over email that he's always loved looking at old newspapers, first for an elementary school project , then as a political science Ph.D. student and now in his free time.
For instance, predictions about men curling their hair appear to stem from"a general worry about anything that challenges gender norms," while talk of a four-hour workday is seemingly part of a larger conversation about the promise of automation.Some predictions proved way more prescient than others . Fairie says his big takeaway is"just to be modest about the certainty of predictions a century out.
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