Ugly people, food shortage, life up to 150 years &more: Here’s what great thinkers predicted for 2025, 100 years ago
Live MintSeveral thinkers imagined what 2025 will look nearly 100 years ago. Some predictions suggested that by 2025, humans might live to 150 years, only superpowers will thrive, and a global government with a single language could emerge. Ugly people: According to Albert E Wiggam there will more ugly people by 2025 as “homely” and “dull” people will have more children than intelligent and beautiful people. “That miraculous progress will not stop….A great scientist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris has said that in 100 years time, man should live to the age of 150. Books on Nickel leaves and rise of electrical devices: According to the Weekly Scotsman, a newspaper in Edinburgh, made this is how 2025 will look like: “The books of A.D. 2025 will probably be printed on nickel leaves, so light and thin that a single volume will contain 30,000 pages, and the pages will be more flexible and durable than paper," it said.
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