'Ugly people, breakfast in tubes': Bizarre 100-year-old predictions about 2025 revealed
Hindustan TimesIn 1925, a group of deep thinkers made their best guesses about what life would be like in 2025. Sir Ronald Ross, a British doctor who won the 1902 Nobel Prize in medicine said that in 100 years time, man would live to the age of 150. Wells, who wrote sci-fi novels like “The Time Machine,” “The War of the Worlds” and “The Invisible Man" said that in 2025 the global power would be controlled by confederations of people. “In a hundred years, there will not be numerous nations, but only three great masses of people — the United States of America, the United States of Europe and China,” he theorised. British scientist Archibald M. Low predicted television machines, breakfast tubes, automatic sleep beds, wireless banking, moving sidewalks and one-piece suits made of artificial felt in his 1925 book “The Future.” Artificial food, sleep substitute Many thinkers predicted global hunger, women in workforces and even cures for all diseases.
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Ugly people, food shortage, life up to 150 years &more: Here’s what great thinkers predicted for 2025, 100 years ago
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