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It's hard to imagine that we live almost in the year 2020. Although we have seen a lot of impressivetechnological advances, like artificial intelligence and phones that unlock by sweeping our faces, it is not quite the world of flying cars and the robot men that people have imagined that we live now. In fact, there are several decades, predictions on theFuturistic and revolutionary changes We would see in this distant survey year were quite high. Want a good laugh? Here are 23 predictions on the year 2020 at some point, people should really happen. Unfortunately, they do not have yet ... at least not yet!

So, what will happen at our feet or, more precisely, our toes-in 2020? In a conference atRoyal College of England Surgeons In 1911, a surgeon by the name ofRichard Clement Lucas Made of a curious prediction: that the "unnecessary external toes" will become less used less and less, so that "the man could become a bass with two fingers". "This little piggy" would have much shorter!

In 1994, Rand, a global focus group that contributed to the spatial program and Internet development, said they were expecting animal employees by the year 2020.

"Rand's panel mentioned that in the year 2020, it may be possible to achieve intelligent animal species, such as monkeys, which will be able to perform a manual workforce", "Glenn T. Seavorg wrote of the prediction of society in his bookScientist speaks. "In the twenty-first century, these houses that do not have a robot in the wardrobe the broom could have a monkey living to do the cleaning and gardening tasks. In addition, the use of well-trained hopes as family drivers could reduce the number of drivers. Automotive accidents. "Yikes, who will tell them?

Inventor, Scientific and Futurist writerArthur C. Clarke-Who has co-written the scenario for2001: a spatial odyssey-Belu that the annoying houses of 1966 would be radically different at the moment we reached the 21st century, according toReverse. Obviously, theHouses of the Future Would not have anything to keep them on the floor and they would be able to move on to the ground on a whim.

Oh, and it would not just be a house that would be able to move without the owner having not even obliged to get out of bed and put trousers. "Whole communities can migrate south in winter or go to new land whenever they feel the need for a landscape change", Clarkepromised.2 2 2, anybody?

The New York Times' Longtime science publisherWaldemar Kaemffert, who worked for the 1920s diary in the 1950s, had a lot of opinions about how different to the world would take place in the 21st century. In a 1950Popular mechanics Article, entitled "Miracles you will see in the next 50 years"," he predicted that in the 21st century, just as much to do so that your home is clean ", just turn the hose on everything. "

This is because the imaginary furniture of Kaemffert would be made of synthetic fabric or waterproof plastic. "After the water flowed on a drain in the middle of the ground (later concealed by a synthetic fiber mat), all you needed is to" light an explosion of hot air "for any dry. What about non-resilient material, you ask? Just "throw the" linen "stained in the incarcerator!"

In the samePopular mechanicsArticle, Kaempffert predicted that all foods would be delivered to our homes in the form of frozen bricks in the 21st century. "Cooking as an art is only a memory in the spirit of the elderly," he wrote. "Some difficult difficulties have always grilled a chicken or roasting a lamb leg, but the experts have developed ways to freeze partially cooked meat cuts." And, thanks to the progress of culinary technology, KaEmpFaster predicted that it would even be possible to take ordinary objects like old table sheets and "rayon underwear" and bring them to "chemical factories to convert Candy ". No thanks!

Forget jetpacks and flying cars.Popular mechanics was almost certain in 1951 that each 21st century family would have at least one helicopter in their garage.

"This simple, practical and infallible personal helicopter, is enough to carry two people and quite small to land on your lawn," he explained. "It does not have any ice carburetor, no ignition system to fall Apart from or at gaps: instead, calm and effective ramps prevent moving rotors, burning any form of fuel from stove oil in Dime-A-gallon or kerosene to the essence of Aviation. "Yes, but then, we imagined, yourteenager Would ask to borrow the helicopter and you wake up the next day to discover your helicopter stuck in a tree. It's always something!

When you're curious aboutThe future of the languageYou should probably ask someone other than an engineer about it. And yet, that's whatJournal at the House of Ladies did in 1900, askingJohn Elfreth Watkins Jr., the Conservative of Mechanical Technology at the Smithsonian Institution, for its suppositions educated over the 21st century.

The man of science has had no love for what he considered foreign letters, and he predicted heavily only by the 2000s, "there will be no C, X or Q in our daily alphabet . They will be abandoned because unnecessary. " Instead, Watkins wrote, we would spell mainly by his and would only communicate "condensed words expressing condensed ideas." So, in 2020, we can tell our friends: "Happy good, hello!"

Michael J. O'Farrell, founder ofThe Mobile Institute, has been an expert in the technological industry since 1985. But even experts can make mistakes. In the 2014 bookShift 2020, O'Farrell predicted that 2020 would be the dawn of "the nanomobility era".

"Waiting for era of nanomobility pending, I predict that telepathy and teleportation will become possible by 2020-with the two currents by 2040," he said. Well, we'll believe it when we'll see it.

If you are sick of asphalt roads and all the hen nests that accompany them, then you wantPopular mechanics was just about this prediction for the 21st century. In an article of 1957, the magazine predicted that each road and every street of America will be "replaced by a network of pneumatic tubes" and your car would need enough power to get from your home to the most close. Then, by the calculations of a Honeywell engineer, they will be pneumatically powered at any desired destination. "

In 1966,Time The magazine indicated that the 21st century would be a pretty awesome economic time for just about everyone. In a trial called "the futurists", they predicted that "machines will produce so much that everyone to the American will will be in effect independently rich." Without even raising a finger, the medium non-worker family could expect to gain an average salary between $ 30,000 and $ 40,000, depending onTime. It's in 1966 dollars, do you think; In 2020, it would be about $ 300,000 - to donothing.We wish!

As it seems he sounds, mail delivery via a missile wastried successfully In 1959. That year, a marine submarine - the United States.Barbero-Send 3000 letters, all addressed toPolitical figures as presidentDWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, using only a rocket. The nuclear head has been removed and replaced by mail containers and the missile has been launched to the naval auxiliary air station.

The mail has been delivered successfully and Postmaster GENERALArthur E. Summerfield It was so excited by the "historical meaning" of the delivery of the mail via instruments of war that he had predicted that he would become common during the next century. "Mail will be delivered to a few hours from New York, California, Great Britain, India or Australia by guided missiles"he said. "We are on the threshold of the rocket." Although we had never had a Rocket Mail, we had something better:E-mail.

We dream of putting humans on Mars as long as we have known that the red planet existed. However, it is only recently that the venture has started to feel even realistic. And yet, in 1997,Cable magazinesPeter Schwartz andPeter Leyden picked the year 2020 as the moment "Humans arrive on Mars. "

They also had specific ideas about how it would go exactly: "The four astronauts affect and pass their images on the 11 billion people sharing at the moment. The expedition is a common effort supported by almost all of all the nations of the planet, the culmination of a decade and half of the intense concentration on a common objective. "Ah, it sounds good, is not it?

In the 90's, we had every reason to believe them. But we are not so optimistic now that Mars Tourism is in our immediate future.Even NASA projects May the earliest we can have a human on the surface of March is 2030, and it is only if we are really lucky.

In 1950, associated press writerDorothy Roe revealed some shocking predictions of life on earth in the 21st century, according toSmithsonian magazine. Among his more scratch forecasts, the women of tomorrow would be "more than six feet tall" and would be "wearing a shoe 11, have shoulders like a wrestler and muscles like a truck driver". Their proportions, Roe wrote, would be perfectly "Amazon", obviously thanks to the science offering "a balanced ration of vitamins, proteins and minerals that will produce maximum physical efficiency."

For a 1939 issue ofBritishVogue, product designerGilbert Rhode We asked what he believed that people in the twenty-first century would wear - and he had a lot of thoughts. He imagined that, by 2020, we would have banned buttons, pockets, necklaces and links, and that men will revolt against shaving. "His hat will be an antenna, tearing the radio from the ether. Its disposable socks. Its costume less tie, necklace and buttons," Rhodedeclared. Healmost Describes a modern hipster living in Brooklyn, but we even suspect that the antenna hat could push a little too far.

Thomas Edison played a role in part of thelarger inventions of all time, light bulbs with cinema cameras. But that does not mean italone had good ideas. Take his vision of the future of steel, for example: during a1911 maintenance withMiami MetropolisHe predicted that "the house of the next century will be furnished from the basement to the attic with steel".

And according to Edison, the steel obsession would not end there. "The 21st century baby will be switched into a steel cradle," he said. "His father will sit in a steel chair with a steel dining table and his mother's boudoir will be sumptuously equipped with steel furniture." It looks like the opposite of comfortable.

In the above-mentioned 1997 fundingCableArticle, Schwartz and Leyden predicted that the Americans would be able to participate in "online vote", voting to the presidential election of the comfort of their own home. In fact, we were able to vote online in 2008, but at this point, even the possibility of voting online in the 2020 election seems a little extracted.

In 1937,Nikola Tesla predictedThat "in a century, coffee, tea and tobacco will no longer be in vogue." "The abolition of stimulants will not come from force," he wrote. "It will simply be more fashionable to poison the system with harmful ingredients." He is of good opinionthe tobaccoBut coffee and tea? Not yet.

We already have bladual blanks, where the plasma backup of life can be done and used to help patients need emergency blood. So, what is the next time you may wonder? Well, inA 1947 issue ofMechanix illustratedmagazine, journalistLester David promised that, in the future, we would have "tooth banks" too.

"Imagine the possibilities", wrote David in the story, "What would you say to the banks of teeth?" "In the stack of junk food will go all artificial prostheses, all bridges, plates, partial plates. All men and women age of age could have human teeth integrated into their gums until the day of their death . "

In 1913,Gustav BischoffThe former President of the American Meat Packers Association, predicted that human diets of humans consist mainly of vegetables over the years. Due to a shortage of meat, itRecountThe New York Timeseven the richest people in the future would bevegetarian.

This prediction comes from only 15 years old and it was made by the futurist and computer scienceRay kurzweil. He wrote in his 2005 bookThe singularity is near: when humans transcend biology That during the 2020s, there will be "nanobots" capable of entering the blood circulation of "nourish" cells and extract waste. As a result, they will make the mode of food consumption because we know obsolete. A bold prediction for only 15 years in the future, is not it?

The robots are the typical prediction of the future - and technically, we have some kind of robots now. But expert global trendsAriane van de Venhad some bigger ideas for 2020. She explained in the aforementioned bookShift 2020 that she believed "there will be more robots used astherapists, companions, assistants and same friends to help people on their daily lives, "saysThe next web. Yeah ... not quite.

Alex LewytFormer President of Lawyt Aspir Company, obviously wanted the world to be excited aboutvacuum cleaners. But whenhe predicted In 1955, that "nuclear energy vacuum cleaners would become a reality in the future, it might not be themore Convince the selling ground. If the choice was between dirty soils or plugging into a mini-shell-waiting-to-do, we would probably stick with the crumbs and dust rabbit.

In the 1900s and earlier in the 2000s, many futurists made their predictions on how 2020 would look. CornDave EvansThe Chief Futurist of Cisco Visual Networking, actually predicted that it would be at the origin of a job at that time, because it exists that everyone would be able to predict the future themselves.

"By 2020, the prediction of the future will be trivial for the average person," he saidPuffIn 2012. "We raise unprecedented amounts of data ... The algorithms and analysis tools of the image and video can unlock this rich source of data, creating unprecedented information. Tools based on Clouds will allow anyone to put this data and perform an analysis, even use it to predict the future. "