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katiediditwell t1_j2wq4rn wrote

300 year old average life expectancy? There'd be no one alive in 1923 who could reach 300 by 2023, much less enough for it to be an average.

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MaygarRodub t1_j2xcaco wrote

Replying to Davidreddit7 (#1,279,456)

I literally just read an article on Reddit (I'll see if I can find it) that says fewer working hours leads to more alcohol consumption. Obviously this would not be the case for everyone, though. But it was a tongue-in-cheek comment.

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Angdrambor t1_j2xhgy7 wrote

>Another posited that utensils and dwellings will be made largely of "pulps and cements."

3d printing! I'm sure the predictor imagined the use of molds, but it's nice to see materials science predictions.

>One writer envisioned a world in which Pittsburgh and London take orders "on talking films" from merchants in Peking, and "1,000-mile-an-hour freighters" deliver goods before sunset.

Half right. I can sit in pittsburg and order stuff from china, but the shipping is a usually a little slower than that. It's technically possible, but I think this predictor forgot to think about fuel costs. Also the fact that 1000mph shipping is unquestionably a weapon of war.

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Soulfighter56 t1_j2xl4j3 wrote

Replying to zestyintestine (#1,278,305)

My job could be done in 4 hours a day if the regulations were lessened a little bit. We have a strict 24-hour turn-around-time limit, but if it were 36-hour then I could go in once a day and do everything from the last 24-hours all at once. Instead I work 4 10s and have a lot of down-time.

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Aeellron t1_j2xluht wrote

Obviously written by a 200 year old from 1923.

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AppleSauceGC t1_j2xoh1b wrote

Replying to katiediditwell (#1,278,419)

Life expectancy is the number of years that someone is expected to live from a specific starting point. Typically birth. So, yes, people in 1923 could expect life expectancy for people being born in 2023 to be 300 years.

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katiediditwell t1_j2xqz30 wrote

Replying to AppleSauceGC (#1,280,205)

Yeah, I do realize how life expectancy works, but there would be no way to get from where we were to 300 in just a century unless a true fountain of youth was found. Life expectancy uses historical data.

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eeyore134 t1_j2xtk9w wrote

Replying to zestyintestine (#1,278,305)

It could, but instead we've decided to go with the bleed as few workers dry as much as possible while paying them as little as possible to keep the people at the top hoarding as much money as possible approach instead.

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Druid___ t1_j2xv9sy wrote

It's nice to see how accurate the "experts" really are at predicting the future.

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tygamer4242 t1_j2xz1wd wrote

Replying to Druid___ (#1,280,496)

That’s because there’s no real way to predict the future. They just look at trend data (which doesn’t really help predict most things) and their imagination to come up with ideas. In the end though, we really have nothing to go on to predict what the future will be like since the world is unpredictable.

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TheTwoMorningPoops t1_j2xzux4 wrote

300 year old people would suggest there 200 year olds back then

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RunninOnMT t1_j2y34w2 wrote

"Everyone will be beautiful so there will be no beauty contests. Or baby contests"

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hahahahahah.....wut?

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RHDGY t1_j2yoyt4 wrote

I love these futurism posts. It’s amazing seeing what those before us thought would happen.

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TheHipcrimeVocab t1_j2zecjq wrote

Replying to RunninOnMT (#1,280,823)

Beautiful baby contests were an outgrowth of the eugenics movement which was very popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (including in 1923). They have mostly faded away, but beauty pageants--which have the same origin--are still around.

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luv-it t1_j2zpk7b wrote

Where's my flying car?

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Edit: Oh , and my Jetpack?

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aharryh t1_j2zrw7c wrote

Replying to zestyintestine (#1,278,305)

"the time is coming when there will be no long drudgery and that people will toil not more than four hours a day, owing to the work of electricity,"

If you take the work/job out it, it's pretty much true, compared to 100 years ago, cooking, cleaning, and chores all done manually. Today electricity does all the work, we just load/unload and push things around.

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War_Hymn t1_j309v4o wrote

Replying to Angdrambor (#1,279,876)

>3d printing! I'm sure the predictor imagined the use of molds, but it's nice to see materials science predictions.

Sounds more like epoxy/resin composites, which is exactly what a lot of our stuff today is made of. See IKEA furniture and pretty much half of "new revolutionary material" posted on science journals these days.

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Jammer97 t1_j328b53 wrote

I am a man. I have curly hair. They got me.

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