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What The Future Was Supposed To Be Like

This collection of expert futurist predictions from over 100 years ago gets some things wrong — very, very wrong. But what’s more interesting is the things it gets right.

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What The Future Was Supposed To Be Like
John Herrman

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      Honestly they really didn’t do bad in predicting… And I saw this in a Cracked article last year…

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      My favorite was the one about how fit and fast we will all be. If they only knew…

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      Does Amazon Prime include free pneumatic tube delivery in 30 minutes or less?

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