I came across a news item where it was reported that predictions that were made 110 years ago are accurate.
The story:
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Most future predictions from 100 years ago include flying cars for the daily commute to work, a robot servant for every family and full meals taken in the form of tiny pills. It’s not exactly the world we’re living in today. This surprising list, however – an article from The Ladies’ Home Journal in 1900 – gets a surprisingly large part of the last hundred years correct… right down to what has become the internet and fast food! Think about it: this was written before the first flight of the airplane or the invention of the radio and air conditioning!
Found recently by a redditor (who incorrectly labels the articles date as 1911-2011), the article was written by American civil engineer John Elfreth Watkins. This forward thinking fellow, who’s pretty conservative in his predictions compared to many of his contemporaries, gets about 15 out of his 25 predictions pretty close to accurate. He almost gets the US population correct at 350 million (about 50 million off), correctly says we’ll all be taller (we are, slightly) and predicted that we’d see around the world with cameras (google maps, youtube and uStream anyone?). He does miss the mark on a number of key points though: we still have wild animals, automobiles are not cheaper than horses and the letters C, X and Q are still in the alphabet (he might be on to a good idea with that one though)……….
Below, a transcription of the image:
“These prophecies will seem strange, almost impossible. Yet, they have come from the most learned and conservative minds in America. To the wisest and most careful men in our greatest institutions of science and learning I have gone, asking each in his turn to forecast for me what, in his opinion, will have been wrought in his own field of investigation before the dawn of 2001 – a century from now. These opinions I have carefully transcribed.”
“Five Hundred Million People There will probably be from 350,000,000 to 500,000,000 people in America and its possessions by the lapse of another century. Nicaragua will ask for admission to our Union after the completion of the great canal. Mexico will be next. Europe, seeking more territory to the south of us, will cause many of the South and Central American republics to be voted into the Union by their own people.”
“The American will be taller by from one to two inches. His increase of stature will result from better health, due to vast reforms in medicine, sanitation, food and athletics. He will live fifty years instead of thirty-five as at present – for he will reside in the suburbs. The city house will practically be no more. Building in blocks will be illegal. The trip from suburban home to office will require a few minutes only. A penny will pay the fare.”
“There will be No C, X or Q in our every-day alphabet. They will be abandoned because unnecessary. Spelling by sound will have been adopted, first by the newspapers. English will be a language of condensed words expressing condensed ideas, and will be more extensively spoken than any other. Russian will rank second.”
“Hot and Cold Air from Spigots. Hot or cold air will be turned on from spigots to regulate the temperature of a house as we now turn on hot or cold water from spigots to regulate the temperature of the bath. Central plants will supply this cool air and heat to city houses in the same way as now our gas or electricity is furnished. Rising early to build the furnace fire will be a task of the olden times. Homes will have no chimneys, because no smoke will be created within their walls.”
“No Mosquitoes nor Flies. Insect screens will be unnecessary. Mosquitoes, house-flies and roaches will have been practically exterminated. Boards of health will have destroyed all mosquito haunts and breeding-grounds, drained all stagnant pools, filled in all swamp-lands, and chemically treated all still-water streams. The extermination of the horse and its stable will reduce the house-fly.”
“Ready-cooked meals will be bought from establishments similar to our bakeries of today. They will purchase materials in tremendous wholesale quantities and sell the cooked foods at a price much lower than the cost of individual cooking. Food will be served hot or cold to private houses in pneumatic tubes or automobile wagons. The meal being over, the dishes used will be packed and returned to the cooking establishments where they will be washed. Such wholesale cookery will be done in electric laboratories rather than in kitchens. These laboratories will be equipped with electric stoves, and all sorts of electric devices, such as coffee-grinders, egg-beaters, stirrers, shakers, parers, meat-choppers, meat-saws, potato-mashers, lemon-squeezers, dish-washers, dish-dryers and the like. All such utensils will be washed in chemicals fatal to disease microbes. Having one’s own cook and purchasing one’s own food will be an extravagance.”
“No Foods will be Exposed. Storekeepers who expose food to air breathed out by patrons or to the atmosphere of the busy streets will be arrested with those who sell stale or adulterated produce. Liquid-air refrigerators will keep great quantities of food fresh for long intervals.”
Coal will not be used for heating or cooking. It will be scarce, but not entirely exhausted. The earth’s hard coal will last until the year 2050 or 2100; its soft-coal mines until 2200 or 2300. Meanwhile both kinds of coal will have become more and more expensive. Man will have found electricity manufactured by waterpower to be much cheaper. Every river or creek with any suitable fall will be equipped with water-motors, turning dynamos, making electricity. Along the seacoast will be numerous reservoirs continually filled by waves and tides washing in. Out of these the water will be constantly falling over revolving wheels. All of our restless waters, fresh and salt, will thus be harnessed to do the work which Niagara is doing today: making electricity for heat, light and fuel.”
“There Will Be No Street Cars in Our Large Cities. All hurry traffic will be below or high above ground when brought within city limits. In most cities it will be confined to broad subways or tunnels, well lighted and well ventilated, or to high trestles with “moving-sidewalk” stairways leading to the top. These underground or overhead streets will teem with capacious automobile passenger coaches and freight with cushioned wheels. Subways or trestles will be reserved for express trains. Cities, therefore, will be free from all noises.”
“Photographs will be telegraphed from any distance. If there be a battle in China a hundred years hence snapshots of its most striking events will be published in the newspapers an hour later. Even to-day photographs are being telegraphed over short distances. Photographs will reproduce all of Nature’s colors.”
http://digg.com/newsbar/Worldnews/scary_accurate_predictions_from_over_110_years_ago
Now read these Predictions from Hinduism.
He is a Leader who is corrupt and decadent.
Advice will be what one likes and not what is Good.
Only money will be the Goal of Life.
Money will determine everything including Status,Leadership.
More than Jewellery, women will prefer hairdo.
The object of Intellect will be to earn money.
People will respect only those who are in power and not who are of good character.
Famine,Floods and Hunger will rule.
People will take food without taking bath.
Divine worship will wane and ultimately cease.
Women will become unfaithful to husbands and men to women.
Kings(Governments) will tax the people heavily and people will revolt.
People will not enter the profession for which they are equipped but will do any thing to earn money.
Average Age of Man will become 20.
People will become old at a very young age of 16.
People will question Religion.
Doubt will rule over the Mind.
Useless arguments will prevail.
Man will be more attached to his in laws(including sisters in Laws and Brothers in Laws and Parents,Brothers and sisters will be neglected.
Women Will consume Excess Liquor.
People will be highly emotionally strung.
People will worship the Bad , yet powerful
Rulers will be surrounded by sycophants.
People will sell Water,Salt,Oil and meat.
Knowledge and Medicine will be sold.
People will become Pygmies.
People will charge exorbitant interest institutionally.
Coveting others property will be considered a Virtue.
Unequal and incompatible Marriages will take place.
Divorce rate will be very high.
Living together will be the order of the day.
Children will be left orphans.
Earth will yield less.
People will be egotistic.
Lights will burn upside down.
These are few of the predictions from Sri Vishnu Purana and Sri Kalki Purana.
I have reproduced them in the order provided in the text and not organised them at my will.
Might be there are some errors in Translation.
Please note that these prediction were made on the Hindu Calender as shown below and the predictions have been made quite some time before we can imagine.
Those interested to read further may refer Sri Vishnu,Kalki/Varaha.Garuda Puranas.
http://ramanisblog.in/2009/08/21/time-non-linear-theory/
There are Four AEONS (yugas).-In terms of Man-Years.
I. Kali Yugam 4, 32,000 years.
II. Dwapara Yugam 8, 64,000years. (Kali x 2)
III. Tretha Yugam 12, 96,000 years. (Kali x 3)
IV. Krutha Yugam 17, 28,000 years. (Kali x 4)
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