Predictions of the future from The Ladies Home Journal in 1900
Some of these are amazing in their accuracy.
Prediction #9: 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.
Prediction #10: Man will See Around the World. Persons and things of all kinds will be brought within focus of cameras connected electrically with screens at opposite ends of circuits, thousands of miles at a span. American audiences in their theatres will view upon huge curtains before them the coronations of kings in Europe or the progress of battles in the Orient. The instrument bringing these distant scenes to the very doors of people will be connected with a giant telephone apparatus transmitting each incidental sound in its appropriate place. Thus the guns of a distant battle will be heard to boom when seen to blaze, and thus the lips of a remote actor or singer will be heard to utter words or music when seen to move.
Prediction #18: Telephones Around the World. Wireless telephone and telegraph circuits will span the world. A husband in the middle of the Atlantic will be able to converse with his wife sitting in her boudoir in Chicago. We will be able to telephone to China quite as readily as we now talk from New York to Brooklyn. By an automatic signal they will connect with any circuit in their locality without the intervention of a “hello girl”.
Prediction #19: Grand Opera will be telephoned to private homes, and will sound as harmonious as though enjoyed from a theatre box. Automatic instruments reproducing original airs exactly will bring the best music to the families of the untalented. Great musicians gathered in one enclosure in New York will, by manipulating electric keys, produce at the same time music from instruments arranged in theatres or halls in San Francisco or New Orleans, for instance. Thus will great bands and orchestras give long-distance concerts. In great cities there will be public opera-houses whose singers and musicians are paid from funds endowed by philanthropists and by the government. The piano will be capable of changing its tone from cheerful to sad. Many devises will add to the emotional effect of music.
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obviously he didn't see the emergence of "high tech" names like Qinetiq, Xerox, and the like. 
When you assume that people will improve things rationally, you are bound to make errors of prediction.
Who could have anticipated personal computers in the 50s?
My thumb drive holds thousand of times more data and it hangs on my key-chain.
The price? If you have to ask, yadda yadda. But just the fact that it exists is pretty amazing.
I thought the telecommunications predictions were amazing. Remember that this was about eighty years before the cell phone and about fifteen years before coast to coast land lines. Telephones looked something like this:
and they're talking about sending pictures wirelessly from anywhere in the world.
I can't even drive to the store without some nut cutting across 3 lanes and almost hitting someone.
There would be Planes crashing into houses all day long!