What People Thought the Future Would be 100 Years Ago

    One hundred years ago, people were trying to predict what the future (our present) would be like. Some of the thing they came up with were a little strange and didn't come true, but other ideas - although, not spot-on - were pretty close to some of the thing we do have today. Here are a few examples of what people thought things would be like today:

firefighters with bat wings

domesticated seahorses

 1. flying cars
 2. domesticated animals              (especially ocean life) that       could be used for                     transportation or work
 3. firefighters with bat wings 
 4. space travel on a regular           basis
 5. high tech education

high tech eduction

 6. video chatting

video chatting

     7. blimp boats
     8. automated bathrooms
     9. robot barbers
   10. mobile homes
   11. radium fire places

    Some of these things, such as the domesticated animals, bat-winged firefighters, and hover cars were pretty hopeful and seem to be more of a "wish list". Other things like the robots performing jobs and high tech education seem to be more on the warning side. People could feel threatened that robots would put them out of jobs, or that their kids could be hooked up to machines.
    Maybe not all of the predictions came true, some of them are pretty far from our reality today, but others came pretty close to being spot-on predictions. The mobile home that was predicted may not be the exact one we have today but it was pretty close. The same goes for video chatting, but giant domesticated seahorses that we can race and ride across the ocean would have to go in the "didn't really happen" category.
     Most of the predictions seem to be about types of transportation, like the blimp boat, the hover cars, and animals.
     Personally, I don't think that we will have another time of drastic change like the one that happened 100 years ago, but I do think that things will continue to change gradually.



1. Wired - Here’s How People 100 Years Ago Thought We’d Be Living Today
2. Up Worthy: 11 ridiculous future predictions from the 1900 world's fair — and 3 that came true.