10 100-Year Predictions
by Tom Geoghegan
BBC
In 1900, an
American civil engineer called John Elfreth Watkins made a number
of predictions about what the world would be like in 2000. How did
he do?
As is customary
at the start of a new year, the media have been full of predictions
about what may happen in the months ahead.
But a much
longer forecast made in 1900 by a relatively unknown engineer has
been recirculating in the past few days.
In December
of that year, at the start of the 20th Century, John Elfreth Watkins
wrote a
piece published on page eight of an American women’s magazine,
Ladies’ Home Journal, entitled What May Happen in the Next
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