WHAT WILL THE WORLD BE LIKE IN 2024?

There’s a piece floating around the internet about a collection of predictions from a variety of experts of the day in 1924 guessing what the world will be like in 100 years. Well, here it is 100 years later. Here’s what they though the world would be like:
– “People will live to be 100 years old, and 75 years would be considered as young.”
– No one would have teeth. (* They should have specified ‘their own teeth.’)
– Horses will be extinct, or at least endangered: “In another hundred years, you may find horses in zoos. I am sure you will not find them anywhere else.” (* Now we have them in big box stores as emotional support animals.)
– Motorcars increasing and multiplying indefinitely. (* Give that predictor a shiny new dollar. He nailed it.)
– Everyone would be flying to work. “It will be the everyday occurrence for the businessman to fly from home to office, and back home again.”
– “Apartment buildings that are 100 stories tall.”
– Family albums made of movies instead of photographs.
– Beds that fling children out of bed in the morning.
– “People hopping from planet to planet as easily as we soar through the sky now.”
– “The debutante of 100 years hence may dye her complexion and hair all the colours of the rainbow.” (* SO he predicted punk rock.)
– Men’s legs withering away from lack of exercise. (* Nailed it.)
– Canada will have 100 million people. (* Were Canadians particularly hornier back in 1924?)
– Diamond supply will be exhausted within 100 years – couples will plight their troth with synthetic gem fused from 100 pounds of sugar.” (* It was just two years ago that men plighted their troth by giving multipacks of hard-to-find toilet paper.)
– “The radio will excite laughter among Americans of A.D. 2024.” (* Jeeze, our show misses that prediction by a mile.)