The Spookily Accurate Predictions For 2025 Made 100 Years Ago

IFL Science ^ | January 2, 2025 | Benjamin Taub

[RainMan]

Weren’t onesies a thing a decade ago?

[Red Badger]

SPANDEX!!.................

[SaveFerris]

(and that the daily news will be delivered over “a loud speaker”.)

‘1984’

[cgbg]

CNN in airports was a thing for a while.

[Red Badger]

Radio, TV and Computers all have speakers, so it was a good prediction. Remember this was 1925.................

[PAR35]

along with their vertical counterpart the escalator

Escalators had been in use on the London Underground over a dozen years by 1925- trial installation at one station in 1911, general use in 1912. First department store escalator in 1899.

Writer probably should have fact checked himself using Google.

[SaveFerris]

(CNN in airports was a thing for a while.)

That’s DEFINITELY ‘1984’

[cgbg]

“Writer probably should have fact checked himself using Google.”

I actually had a Reddit poster tell me someone who died before 2000 should have checked with Wikipedia before making their comments.

I responded they should have checked with Wikipedia to figure out when the guy died.

Lol.

[Sarcazmo]

“Professor Archibald Montgomery Low – who used the title despite not being a real professor”

Boss move.

[PAR35]

I actually had a Reddit poster tell me someone who died before 2000 should have checked with Wikipedia before making their comments.

Well, I did wonder if the writer Ben Taub was still alive. Was he named for the hospital, or was the hospital named in his memory.

Ben Taub Hospital
1504 Taub Loop
Houston, Texas 77030

[Larry Lucido]

The only professor who ever impressed me. His song "The Red Barchetta" accurately predicted the passing of The Motor Laws.

[Larry Lucido]

Red Barchetta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LXKZq0fYDw

[ClearCase_guy]

Now I’m thinking about Professor Irwin Corey — “The world’s foremost expert”.

[Billthedrill]

Nonsense! These were the sort of kooks who believed in moving pictures and heavier-than-air flight. I’ll have none of it!

[Red Badger]

Saw them in 1978 or so...............

[Spacetrucker]

Wait just a damned minute! I had a rotary phone in the mid-80’s!

[frank ballenger]

I haven’t flown since September, 1998.

Has CNN in airports finally ended?

I remember they had contracts with airports, train stations and hospital waiting rooms. Plus a short year of them at the supermarket checkout lanes such as at Kroger. Probably had too many squishy fruits thrown at Wolf Blitzer. Gave up.

[frank ballenger]

But the GOP lacks one if the vote collapses. 15 tries last time.

[cgbg]

I have not flown since I retired in 2018—it was still in airports then.