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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsIn 1900, Ladies’ Home Journal Publishes 28 Predictions for the Year 2000
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http://www.openculture.com/2013/12/ladies-home-journal-publishes-28-predictions.html
liberal N proud
(60,302 posts)OffWithTheirHeads
(10,337 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)Ptah
(32,983 posts)Oranges will grow in Philadelphia. Fast-flying refrigerators on land and sea will bring delicious fruits
from the tropics and southern temperate zone within a few days. The farmers of South America,
South Africa, Australia and the South Sea Islands, whose seasons are directly opposite to ours,
will thus supply us in winter with fresh summer foods, which cannot be grown here. Scientist will
have discovered how to raise here many fruits now confined to much hotter or colder climates.
Delicious oranges will be grown in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Cantaloupes and other summer fruits
will be of such a hardy nature that they can be stored through the winter as potatoes are now.
Strawberries as large as apples will be eaten by our great great grandchildren for their Christmas
dinners a hundred years hence. Raspberries and blackberries will be as large. One will suffice for the
fruit course of each person. Strawberries and cranberries will be grown upon tall bushes. Cranberries,
gooseberries and currants will be as large as oranges. One cantaloupe will supply an entire family.
Melons, cherries, grapes, plums, apples, pears, peaches and all berries will be seedless.
Figs will be cultivated over the entire United States.
http://yorktownhistory.org/wp-content/archives/homepages/1900_predictions.htm
hunter
(38,264 posts)If I had a time machine I'd sent them some.
Dash87
(3,220 posts)Many of the predictions were not only right, but were topped. I wonder what the author would think or say if he saw a robot?
sinkingfeeling
(51,281 posts)handmade34
(22,755 posts)interesting