the year 2000 as depicted in 1910

[USS Exeter]

It is amazing they actually got a few right!

Which ones did they get right?!

[ElectricFetus]

gee, well they got the basic concepts of many of those things right, the actually technology use to achieve it though was something they got ridiculously wrong.

Examples of some of what they got right:
Roller skates
Electric Trains (Bullet Trains)
Helicopters
TV or Video Phone (VOIP or Webcam)

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Also podcasts, armoured cars with guns,
segway - http://www.paleofuture.com/2007/03/n...ve-wheels.html
moving pavement (at airports) - http://www.paleofuture.com/2007/04/p...irca-1900.html
tv, police x-ray scans.

What i found the coolest though is domed cities with glass like roof. I wish we had those.

[ElectricFetus]

What this say about prediction of our future:
1. We will probably get the basic concept right.
2. We will be laughed at how wrong we get the technology.
3. Fashion is beyond prediction.

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http://www.paleofuture.com/ is a cool site

I somehow miss that we didn't have underwater railways though... would look awesome!

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1908

[Lord Hillyer]

Which ones did they get right?!

Welcome back San...on nevermind.

[USS Exeter]

Welcome back San...on nevermind.

I'm changed LH, I'm now liberal, but I still am rich and look like Chrisie Brinkley.

[USS Exeter]

gee, well they got the basic concepts of many of those things right, the actually technology use to achieve it though was something they got ridiculously wrong.

Examples of some of what they got right:
Roller skates
Electric Trains (Bullet Trains)
Helicopters
TV or Video Phone (VOIP or Webcam)

Their airship idea also came an early twenty years after their prediction of intercontinental airship travel.