One Man Predicted the Entire Twentieth Century

In 1900 an American engineer named John Elfreth Watkins Jr. published an article in the Saturday Evening Post. Making some bold predictions, he pretty much laid out a lot of the things we take for granted today. Predictions include the presence of suburbs, subways in urban centres, cars would replace horses and be cheaper, photos will be sent across the world wirelessly, indoor plumbing would be everywhere and the globalization of industry would mean that we could anything, anywhere.

While most things came true, he wasn’t 100% He also predicted that mosquitos would go extinct and we’d have strawberries the size of apples.