Prediction of 2009: From the New York Times, Sunday, September 26, 1909

[Swede]

In the telegravures of the recent celebrations, which we publish elsewhere in this issue, we realize at a glance what has happened in this old but ever new world during the 100 years which have elapsed since the centennial's first celebration. We are at once struck by the absence of all wheeled vehicles on land and of all funneled or masted surface vessels at sea. The streets which were crowded by all sorts and conditions of more or less crude vehicles are to-day devoted to pedestrian traffic, always excepting babies' perambulators

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[Ken Burch]

1. Did the author of this editorial dictate it to his manservant?

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[Swede]

2. How droll,sir.

:hi:

[Ken Burch]

4. brandy and cigars in the War Room!

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[Swede]

5. Indeed.

[Fumesucker]

3. Our predictions today will look every bit as silly 100 years from now..

And our language will seem every bit as stilted and archaic.

Probably even more so since the pace of change has been accelerating for the last century.

I read an old William Gibson story from 1977 the other night "Fragments of a Hologram Rose" wherein he mentions tape recorders in a considerably more advanced future than our own..

http://lib.ru/GIBSON/frag_rose.txt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragments_of_a_Hologram_Rose