Paul FairieA List of Predictions Made in 1925 About 2025
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Giant aeroplanes will fly 50 passengers between London and Paris in only a couple of hours
People will be awakened by radio alarm clocks and baldness will be almost universal
Speakers will be able to address the entire world at once and the unification of the human race will be complete
@IanAMartin HAS MOVED!@paulisci “Privilege.” If only people treated it as that. I think it was Walter Cronkite who said it was important to remember that even if your voice reached across the country, it didn’t matter any more than someone’s voice reaching the other end of the bar.
Adam R. Wood@paulisci Social media seems to have had the exact opposite of unification, to be honest.
KChernecky For Democracy
Joe Hill 🇵🇸🇺🇦@paulisci
I’ll never forget the marvel I experienced the day in 2005 when I texted my GF in Las Vegas that I’d arrived safely in Milan using a tiny computer that fit in my pocket.
I’ll never forget the marvel I experienced the day in 2005 when I texted my GF in Las Vegas that I’d arrived safely in Milan using a tiny computer that fit in my pocket.
I am your √(-1) friend"Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."
ChuS 水 (ManchaPod)
John Leonard@paulisci Makes it sound like a good thing.
CodieneC@paulisci Well... that's one prediction that has no hopes of succeeding within my lifetime :(
refraction 
@paulisci oh no!
Chu 朱How long ago was this they already predicted sonar?
Badger AF (he/him) DEMOCRACY@paulisci Only if they ask nicely.
@paulisci *SO* close.
EndlessMason@paulisci
They'll still want you to come in to the office twice a week though
They'll still want you to come in to the office twice a week though
crypticcelery 🔙 EH23@paulisci they were really onto that "wireless" thing, weren't they?
And this is not too far of, giving sniffers and relays for wireless key fobs.
Fiona@paulisci This one turned out kind of true, though not to the letter. 
Kevin Karhan 
phi1997@paulisci
That one checks out
That one checks out