Apparently an American John Elfreth Watkins (not enough people have the=20
name Elfreth these days) circa 1900 made a number of preditions about how=20
the world would be 100 years later in a magazine called the Ladies' Home=20
Journal.

He is said to have mused on.

High speed colour transmittable photography.

Americans would be 2" taller on average (what about the rest of the=20
world?).

Wireless telephony.

Ready Meals.

Forced vegetable growing.

Television.

Tanks and high speed trains.

He was wrong about the English language losing the letters C, X, Q.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16444966

Colin

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