- People will work a max of four hours a day. The headline read “No More Hard Work by 2023!” They said electricity would make it possible.
- No ugly people. They thought beauty pageants would become obsolete because it would be almost impossible to choose a winner.
- Women will paint their teeth black to be fashionable. It is a lot more common for people to whiten their teeth.
- Gasoline will be replaced by radio waves.
- The average life expectancy will be 100 years old while some experts said 300. The average in the U.S. back then was only 57 years old, and now it’s around 76. The oldest living person will turn 119 next month.
- Flying from Chicago to Germany will only take 18 hours. They were too conservative with that one, it’s actually half now, around a nine-hour flight.
- Cancer will be eradicated. Not yet, but we’re making pretty good progress.
- Homes won’t have kitchens anymore. That one basically said we’d have ways to make food using, quote, “chemical formulas” and wouldn’t need to cook. We do have Uber Eats and DoorDash though.
- Telepathy will exist. That one also said we’d even be able to speak telepathically with babies.
- Kidney koozies.
