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<b>This <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/159zfz/over_100_years_ago_a_team_of_the_finest_minds_in/" target="_blank">collection</a> of expert futurist predictions from over 100 years ago gets some things wrong — very, very wrong.</b> But what's more interesting is the things it gets right.

This collection of expert futurist predictions from over 100 years ago gets some things wrong — very, very wrong. But what's more interesting is the things it gets right.

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My favorite was the one about how fit and fast we will all be. If they only knew...

I still like <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=-VQEAAAAMBAJ&amp;lpg=PA112&amp;dq=%22men%20who%20plan%20beyond%20tomorrow%22&amp;lr&amp;as_drrb_is=b&amp;as_minm_is=0&amp;as_miny_is&amp;as_maxm_is=0&amp;as_maxy_is=1965&amp;as_brr=0&amp;as_pt=MAGAZINES&amp;pg=PA112#v=twopage&amp;q&amp;f=false">this Seagrams ad</a> from Life Magazine in 1946, that accurately predicted what the modern sports bar with flatscreen TVs on every wall would look like.

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In case anybody else is interested in the source for things, this is from The Ladies&#39; Home Journal (1889-1907); Dec 1900; Vol. XVIII,, No. 1, Page 8

Honestly they really didn&#39;t do bad in predicting... And I saw this in a Cracked article last year...