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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
Third spruce tree on the left@paulisci Mosquitos maybe.
@paulisci [I looked it up so you don't have to, reader: it's around 40 million now]
@Zotmeister @paulisci And half of those are three-thousand mosquitos in trenchcoats.
GRASSY KNOWLES@paulisci … and the telegraph- journal (now owned by little lord cross creek of stolen land's postmedia) is now the same bigoted alarmist far right hamster cage liner and wundow cleaner.
I wash my hands everynight in shame for having delivered that paper after the irving sellout.
Guillotine Jones, Flâneur
The clairvoyant professor only missed the population of Canada by about 60%, Paul. @paulisci I mean, a 1TB microSD card can hold the equivalent of *half a billion* pages...
Marsh Ray@paulisci Nickel leaves (e.g., CD-ROMs) were so 1990’s.
pgnx@paulisci Nickel? Or perhaps silicon, the ubiquitous Kindle e-reader and similar...
Author-ized L.J.@paulisci ykw this has a ring of truth since it's true e-books and digital storage do cut down drastically on space. Also the feel of a garbled prophecy--Kobo readers ship with an OS called Nickel xD
RedTechEngineer@paulisci I love it when my books corrode after a few weeks
@paulisci read this in a old timey radio announcer voice.
"jolly good we shall long be dead and buried by the time this horrific future is upon humanity".
We are not there yet, which is somewhat sad.
hlarrageta 
dzamie 
@paulisci If fucking only! It was on a sharp decline, but noooo
@paulisci finally!
Mario Ostolaza@paulisci A pity we didn't run out of oil, maybe we'd have been forced into Eco solutions 🌱 instead of just selling greenwashing 😵
PeteCf. Peak Oil
Hanneke@paulisci if only we had…
Luna Lactea@paulisci please happen faster
lizzard
Tim Richards@paulisci I like that Melbourne was third on that list :)
@paulisci the biggest wrong prediction in this whole thread
Zeke 🇨🇦@paulisci Little time will be wasted in putting on his synthetic felt one-piece suit. One question: “Where is my suit?”
AIPAC ur bags@paulisci I love to know the basis for the radio light treatment
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦@paulisci funny how this one has been fought tooth and nail by eugenics-loving right wingers here in the USA
kosure@paulisci This one hurts.
@paulisci Wait, what? Buying cigarettes “after hours” is a crime?