Also, they really seemed excited at the prospect of the average American living to be 50 years old! My mother in law is 80 and I'm not that excited about that. She's probably going to outlive me!
Too bad we never exterminated the mosquito and housefly. That's one prediction I'm really bummed that it didn't come true.
Strawberries as big as apples? No thanks. I'll take them just the size they are, so they can fit on my spoon when I put them in yogurt or ice cream.
The “telephoned opera” is an example of something where the author just didn’t have the words/concepts to describe it. Opera was a big enough deal that it may have seemed important enough to telephone ... what they didn’t anticipate was ANY music/audio would be streamed, _on_demand_, to POCKET telephones! wireless at that! End-of-year news includes observations that the paid music download market is facing collapse under the growth of paid no-limit streaming.
Those bitching about expensive health care indeed forget that wasn’t long ago that average lifespan was 50. Yeah, if you want to live to 100, it’s probably going to cost you (or whoever you can con into paying for it).
We _could_ exterminate pests a la species genocide. Problem is, it would screw up the ecosystem so bad we’d risk traumatic collapse. It’s a prediction we could fulfill, but we know better than to try.
Don’t underestimate how large our fruit is. Natural strawberries are MUCH smaller than the golf-ball sized ones we buy in common grocery stores. Big as apples is possible, but the bigger fruit grows the poorer the taste. Like you say, there is a size preferable to what we _could_ grow them as.
Apparently we are not too far away.
Considering that malaria may be the all time leading killer of humans, this could be one of the greatest achievements ever.