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on 5.12
by seele





on The Secrets of the Powernap
by seepinglight





In the Year 2000
Submitted by Larry on Thu April 19th, 2007 at 10:29:22 AM EDT
From the Ladies Home Journal, here's a list of what we should expect by the year 2000.. it's amusing to look back on these - I guess not everyone can predict what happen in the year 2000 as well as I can (well, at this moment anyhow)! This is from 1900, so maybe we can extrapolate what will happen in 2100!
Prediction #9: Photographs will be telegraphed from any distance. If there be a battle in China a hundred years hence snapshots of its most striking events will be published in the newspapers an hour later. Even to-day photographs are being telegraphed over short distances. Photographs will reproduce all of Nature’s colors.

Prediction #10: Man will See Around the World. Persons and things of all kinds will be brought within focus of cameras connected electrically with screens at opposite ends of circuits, thousands of miles at a span. American audiences in their theatres will view upon huge curtains before them the coronations of kings in Europe or the progress of battles in the Orient. The instrument bringing these distant scenes to the very doors of people will be connected with a giant telephone apparatus transmitting each incidental sound in its appropriate place. Thus the guns of a distant battle will be heard to boom when seen to blaze, and thus the lips of a remote actor or singer will be heard to utter words or music when seen to move.

Prediction #18: Telephones Around the World. Wireless telephone and telegraph circuits will span the world. A husband in the middle of the Atlantic will be able to converse with his wife sitting in her boudoir in Chicago. We will be able to telephone to China quite as readily as we now talk from New York to Brooklyn. By an automatic signal they will connect with any circuit in their locality without the intervention of a "hello girl".
Ah, in the year 2000! Maybe we'll even eat giant strawberries. That would be sweet.
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