Amazing Predictions About 2024 From 100 Years Ago — And Predictions For 2124
A new year means new predictions. I’m always fascinated by predictions from long ago, when technology was barely rearing its head, and cars were just becoming a thing. I hate…
8 Amazing Predictions About 2024 From 100 Years Ago
Ernesto Sevilla Via Getty Images PlussA new year means new predictions. I'm always fascinated by predictions from long ago, when technology was barely rearing its head, and cars were just becoming a thing.
I hate to admit it, but I was one of those people who wondered if that whole "internet thing" was going to take off. I mean, I downloaded my free AOL, just in case it became popular. But I was skeptical.
Luckily, there have always been people who were ahead of their time - even 100 years ago - as you'll see from these very forward thinking predictions from 1924.
Working From Home - Like Zoom?
Some predictions from 1924, from an article that USA Today recently did, include world peace, terrible diets leading to no one having teeth, and everyone flying to work. Here are some very insightful highlights.
- No one would have teeth. America's diet habits were concerning, even back in 1924! An advice columnist thought America's eating habits could drastically change our looks. Even wondered if we would have any teeth at all? Would there be any color on our face except paint? Will men have any height to speak of?
- Working from home. This is really interesting. In a book called "Wireless Possibilities," Archibald Low basically predicted the Internet. He said we'd be doing most things remotely, and it would be great if you hate cities. "Why could man "not conduct his business from his house in comfort?"
- World peace - through movies. We are still hoping. Back in 1924, D.W. Griffith predicted moving pictures would help end all wars, because they were a "universal language" that could help us all understand each other better. He said by 2024, movies would have played a big part in eliminating armed conflict. Again - still hoping.
Women Will Finally Run the World
- Women would be in charge, and men would be raising the kids. In a letter to the "New York Daily News," Frank Ferraro said "women will occupy all the highest positions," and men will just do physical labor, or stay home to, wait on the babies and take care of the pets." And according to NBC News, we might just be trending that way. (Don't be afraid - go see Barbie, guys)
- A limit to the number of kids you could have. A Department of Agriculture official predicted we wouldn't have enough food to go around. So the birthrate would "have to be limited" by 2024.
- Cities would be built around cars. In the 1920s, cars were starting to take off. In 1924, Swedish architect Ben Bjorkson predicted "three-deck roads, speedways through the heart of town, and skyscrapers with entrances for automobiles as high as 15 stories."
- Everyone would be flying to work - just like The Jetsons. We ve all been waiting for this! A New York real estate mogul predicted we'd all be using airplanes. And it would be commonplace for people to fly from home to work. It's being worked on, and it will probably happen. Hopefully later, rather that sooner - since most people still can't drive on roads.
Predictions for 2124:
Here are MY predictions for 2024:
- Windshields with our eyeglass prescriptions
- In the final season of "Law And Order SUV, Space" Olivia Benson will still not retire
- Cher will be begin her farewell tour
- The iPhone 115 will have the "chip in the earlobe Pro" version.
- Keith Richard will celebrate his 181st birthday
- Self-driving cars will have robotic hands to give each other the finger in traffic
- That bottle of soy sauce in your refrigerator will expire
From Millennials: Funny Signs You’re In Your 40s
Signs you're in your 40's -- they're not pretty, but those "signs" will be with you forever.
When Do You Start To Feel Old?
When do you truly start to feel old? Millennials -- those born between about 1980 - 1996 -- seem to have some answers.
I have friends in their 40s now saying “I can't understand a lot of the songs that my kids and teenagers listen to." Another friend of mine said, "When did TikTok start giving medical advice? I thought it was all about stupid dances for us 40-year-olds to laugh at!"
It will happen to all of you. One day you're staying up till 4 a.m., the next you're waking up at 4 a.m. Probably because you had a cup of coffee at three in the afternoon the day before, and caffeine just doesn't like you anymore...
Do you wake up with a backache in the morning -- for no apparent reason?
Millennials Watch Out!
The first members of the generation we know as millennials came around in 1980, which means they're turning 43 this year. According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, that just happens to be the average age that Americans stop feeling young, according to this survey by the Worldwide Independent Network of Market Research.
Those on the latter end of the millennial birth years still have a while to reach the unwanted milestones of creaking, and not being able to eat broccoli anymore. But, I promise you'll understand soon enough.
Signs That You're In your 40s:
It's a reality: Kids of the '80s are hitting their 40s. And even if you don't feel like you're quite over the hill, there are a few telltale signs that you can't ignore.
The hashtag "#SignsYoureInYour40s" was recently trending on Twitter/X, and there were some hilariously responses. But are they all true? To this writer, yes. But I'll let you read them - and laugh a little bit when you pee - and you decide.
You woke up injured -- but don't know why.
Oh, it will happen and it's baffling. Don't spend the morning trying to figure it out -- just take the Ibuprofen.
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Hangovers last all day
And you only had those two glasses of wine! Don't try to figure it out. Again -- just take the Ibuprofen.
You already know about AI -
And his name is CLIPPY! Look him up -- he was fabulous.
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A teacher once told you this:
"You won't always have a calculator in your pocket!" Umm, hi -- Mr. Johnson? I'm calling you from my calculator.
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You asked Jeeves before you Googled.
Kids, this is how you "googled" begore Google - you asked "Jeeves." Google it.
Signs you're in your 40's
You printed out greeting cards and birthday banners with a dot-matrix printer
A WHAT Matrix WHAT?? Well, at least know what the holes on the sides of printer paper were for...
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The cashier asks for ID for age-restricted items.
Then they laughed because they just needed it to clear your self check-out scan.
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The creaky noises from your bed are no longer from the bed springs
Nope that's all you. Truly, you sound like a bowl of Rice Crispies.
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When You're Shopping At The Grocery Store, And The Music Playing Are The Same Tunes Played At Your Homecoming
Bust a move -- but don't hurt yourself. This is truly how you know that you reached the "hill" at least. When the elevator or grocery store music is the same as your school dances. Or, when your music suddenly becomes "throwbacks."
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