Today's post looks back to 1925 at the predictions made for 2025, they didn't get a lot of them right. Life expectancy would be at least 150, H. G. Wells said there would a global power with no independent countries only 3 great masses of people, the United States of America, the United States of Europe and China. A British scientist expected television machines, breakfast tubes, automatic sleep beds, wireless banking and moving sidewalks. The airport of the future would be in the center of the city, have a well appointed lobby with an elevator that would take you to the roof where the plane waited on a turntable to be catapulted off at 300 mph. San Francisco and Oakland would overtake New York City as the world's greatest city with a population of 15 million. Oh well, back to the drawing board.
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