We spend a lot of time re-framing the past, trying to figure out what's going on in the present, and then attempting to predict the future. I thought it would be interesting to consider some predictions from the past and think about which were right and which were very, very wrong. Below is an excerpt from the December 1900 Ladies Home Journal. Can we learn anything to aid in our own predictions by considering what past futurists got right and wrong?
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Another view of the "future" from 1995. The internet? Bah!
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