Some of the mysterious prophecies of a hundred years ago have now come true

by hanyelv on 2008-12-16 09:48:57

According to foreign media reports, John... Effelais In the December 1900 issue of the Ladies' Home Journal, Watkins published his collated predictions for the United States and the world at the end of the 20th century. What will change in the next 100 years? In the book, Watkins visits "the biggest research institutes and asks the most visionary and very thoughtful people" about how their own fields of research will change before 2001. Some of these predictions turned out to be remarkably accurate, while others were nowhere near the truth. Here is a list of 14 environmentally-related predictions, along with a brief analysis.