What were the predictions for 2023, a hundred years ago? 5h6a4f

A few decades ago we saw the Jetsons in 2062 bring a world completely different from the one lived at the time it aired — 1962, exactly 100 years apart. We are less than 40 years away from attesting whether the design was successful in any of the ideas seen. Now bringing it to our reality, what has changed from a hundred years ago? The student Paul Fairie, from the University of Calgary, discovered newspapers and articles from 1923 that contained predictions for 2023. What did they already have in mind for the future? Check below some of the predictions made 100 years ago! 1t1s2t

As we read a forecast for 2023, when various types of aircraft fly across the sky, we don't start the day by reading the world's news, but by listening to it, as the newspaper went bankrupt more than half a century ago.

An excerpt from Paul Fairie's findings

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As it is a prediction made in a colder place, it is a little more understandable to understand this first prediction: internal organ heaters — more specifically the kidneys. The idea would be to design a device that would work like a “teapot” to keep the kidney or other internal organs warmer in colder times.

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already in the newspaper The Minneapolis Journal, the prediction considered “long-awaited” by the people of the time, was about aircraft. In 1923, Glenn Curtiss, a pioneering aviator, stated that “in the future gasoline would be replaced by radio as fuel, and the skies would be filled with flying machines that would travel on very well defined routes”. Well, Glenn isn't completely wrong, is he?

In another part of the newspaper, forecasts were seen for a “Polar airline”, which would be able to make trips between Chicago e Hamburg across the North Pole in 18 hours. Another “almost there” prediction, as this trip currently takes about 13 hours.

And speaking of distances, another author reported that in 2023 it would be possible for people in Petersburg and London to be able to place orders in “talking photos” of stores in Beijing and these orders would be delivered through freighters that would operate at more than 1.000 km/h, completing delivery within 24 hours. The prediction was even more ambitious, saying that there would be phones with screens the size of wall clocks that would keep the whole world connected!

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Possibly due to their great ambition to achieve communication without papers or cables, this is the reason why we have access to the internet today. the british scientist Archibald low, creator of the first drone and another device that was very close to what would be a television, said that the battle in 2023 would be about a wireless conflict. And he still goes beyond what was imaginable for that time.

It is highly likely that another century after the growth of civilization, mental telepathy could exist in embryos and develop into a beneficial mode of communication. […] To save time and effort, the average London businessman would employ a communication device.

Excerpt from British scientist Archibald Low's predictions

The scientist also stated that between the years 1923 and 2023 humanity would go through extreme moments of progress, mainly in the replacement of man by machine at work. He predicted that nowadays we would use portable phones that would concentrate in itself several functions, but not only in phones, but also in cars, houses and trains, bringing in all of them more communication capabilities. Voice assistants, the mass use of smartphones and modern shopping are some of the scholar's successes.

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Another author predicted that some diseases would be eradicated in 2023, such as cancer, tuberculosis, infantile paralysis (polio), locomotor ataxia e the leprosy. his prediction was accompanied by a personal sentence in which he said that no one feared so many illnesses anymore, there would be fewer doctors and everyone would be more beautiful. He even claims that there would be no need for beauty contests in 2023 as everyone would be very beautiful.

This prediction was based on the view that scientists and others in the field would eradicate most existing diseases, leaving people more healthy over the years and consequently more beautiful. Unfortunately, none of these predictions even came close to being correct, since beauty pageants still exist, as well as aesthetic beauty standards and even the setback in the search for cures and disease prevention, as when some people refused to vaccinate against COVID -19.

Now about the style of the time, an anthropologist predicted that most men would wear curly hair. The newspaper The Savannah News also predicted something similar, stating that the predominant style among women was that of being bald and they would still be at the height of beauty from the use of personal adornments to the blackening of their teeth — aesthetically.

Not necessarily an error, the forecast is right today in a subjective way, with more men using cosmetic products and women managing to express their wishes and desires in whatever the subject is, mainly about how they dress or act.

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While one author or another makes specific predictions, many others make the same prediction: longevity. Many of them bet big ranging from life expectancy in 2023 between 100 and 300 years, others were even more ambitious and claimed that some people could live longer than that. Unfortunately this is another prediction that is not so close to reality. In the United States, for example, the life expectancy of a baby born in 2016 is about 76,4 years old — the world average is 72,75 years old.

The electronic engineer named Charles Steinmetz brought more optimistic forecasts, imagining that the world's population would work less. Charles made a publication in a newspaper that predicted people working no more than 4 hours a day, mainly because of the help of electricity. But all this is just a forecast, as we know that thousands of people around the world sometimes need to work more than twice as much as the forecast says in order to survive.

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And finally, many articles with forecasts for 2023 understood that the trend in 100 years was to increase the number of people worldwide. Some of these newspapers claimed that there would be 300 million people living in the United States while there would be 100 million people living in Canada. The numbers were based on what these countries would be able to offer their citizens, such as better means of transport, public health and other basic infrastructure.

According to a recent projection made by the Worldmeters, the prediction was almost right, since the United States currently live 335 million people, and in Canada, 38 million. At the time the United States had 111.900 million inhabitants and indeed during the next 100 years that number grew exponentially.

And you, what did you think of these predictions? What do you think the year 2123 holds for us? Tell us in the comments!

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