100 year old predictions about 2024
A report regarding 2024 was published in the American media.
That about a hundred years ago, visionaries envisioned...
What will life be like in 2024?
In a 1924 skit titled The High Price of Living 100 Years From Now, theater actor Malcolm Faust predicted that milk would be served with a medicine dropper and an egg woman, reports the Acorn Beacon Journal.
A professor at Columbia University said in 1924, "Will some kind doctor provide us with a prescription that will ensure our existence on earth until 2024 AD?"
A professor says that women will dress like men a hundred years from now.
Hollywood director DW Griffith (1875-1948) predicted that movies would lead to world peace.
Motion pictures will help usher in a new era of peace. In the year 2024, cinema will help in a big way, will be the elimination of all armed conflicts from the face of the civilized world. He wrote, "I believe that a hundred years from now, movies will have time to teach the masses to stay away from discord and harmony."
In 1924, Professor Leo H. Backland, president of the American Chemical Society, feared that the weapons of the future could wipe out humanity in the blink of an eye. The protection of women or children, the elderly or the weak will be eliminatedThere will be no way.
A USC professor feared in 1924 that horses would be close to extinction by 2024 when tractors and automobiles pushed them off the roads, tractors and automobiles replacing the horse in rural life. As the horse becomes obsolete, so will the need for its existence. In another hundred years, you might find horses in zoos.
In 1924, Arthur Dean expressed concern about American dietary habits. What will Pete look like 100 years from now?
The Wolverines jazz band appeared at Doyle's Academy of Music in Cincinnati in 1924. Some American religious leaders blamed jazz for promoting immorality among the youth, and Russian classical violinist Paul defended the music as a way of promoting jazz in America. It will be a powerful force for the development of music, and a hundred yearsI will be accepted as a classic
Swedish architect Ben Børksen predicted that Americans would demolish large parts of major cities. In a hundred-year-old city from now, three-deck streets will run through the heart of the city, skyscrapers, streetcars and motor omnibuses will be replaced by monorail express. Underground cargo ships that will go in all directions.
Soviet actress Yulia Solentseva (1901-1989) played the Queen of Mars in the 1924 sci-fi film Aelita.
The New York Daily News of 1924 mapped out a clear vision of the future, "Has anyone ever wondered what this country will be like a hundred years from now? Imagine a woman president, women politicians and police." Women will hold high positions, men will be forced to work. Those who are not physically fit will have to stay at home and look after the children, or take care of the pets.
The president of the University of Southern California envisions the 'girl of tomorrow' as a goddess who loves to dance, physically strong, vital and alert, outdoorsy, active in sports, intellectually She will not be lazy, sharp in intellect and keen on judgment.
William Borah (1865–1940) was a U.S. Senator from Idaho. He blamed extravagance in government for oppressive taxes on Americans. Said that in 100 years from now we will be in no better condition than the nations that were destroyed in the past.
Speaking at a 1924 dinner in London, the British politician Sir Kingsley Wood said there was no doubt that by 2024 the average life expectancy would be 100 years, and a 75-year-old would be relatively young.
A British scientist, Archibald M. Lowne, in his 1924 book 'Wireless Possibilities' envisioned something that looked an awful lot like the Internet. Will be able to sign your checks through expedited delivery in the future. will be able to trace criminals, send their fingerprints, and carry on many classes of business, which at present require our physical attention, a man from his home to maintain his financial reputation. Why can't he do his business comfortably?
New York City real estate mogul Joseph P. Day expects the daily commute to work in 2024 to be very different. The development of the aircraft will proceed rapidly. The sky will be black with airplanes, so it will be a daily occurrence for the businessman to go from home to office and back again.
Artist Don Glickman imagines in 1953 what interplanetary travel to Mars would look like in the distant future. With fuel stored in cylinders, the spacecraft would depart from an intermediate space station. Lt. Russell Maughan's dawn-to-dusk transcontinental flight in 1924 was a national triumph. What might be left to conquer by 2024? The Burlington Free Press expressed surprise. That Americans 100 years from now, traveling in a machine we would consider impossible, will race this world during daylight hours and win? Maughan's flight would have seemed impossible a century ago. Perhaps by 2024 we will be in direct contact with other worlds
Leland Ossian Howard (1857-1950) was an American biologist. Howard warned that if drastic measures are not taken, the world will be overpopulated and starving by 2024. The world will be overcrowded 100 years from now, births will have to be limited somehow.
Colonel William Boyce Thompson, a millionaire copper magnate, founded the Plant Research Institute near New York to combat food shortages. With the country predicted to reach half a billion in a few hundred years by 2024, I want to help it prepare to feed that population.
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