How people imagined 2025, living in 1915 (11 photos)

It's a good thing to imagine what will happen in about 100 years, and it's even better to call it a prediction. Your contemporaries are unlikely to judge you in a hundred years, but your descendants will laugh at you.





American historian Paul Fairey dug through the archives and found some interesting articles in old newspapers predicting a future that has already arrived.

Let's see what Europeans believed in in 1915. The ideas put forward were interesting, but sometimes even alarming. So, 100 years ago, a certain Henry Fletcher, a supporter of birth control, scared everyone that by 2025 humanity would multiply so much that it would be simply impossible to feed such a mass.



The era of wireless communication has really arrived.

Professor Archibald Montgomery Low, who, although he was not a real professor, called himself that in the press, spoke about it.

So, he predicted that light would be transmitted wirelessly, we have not reached this point yet. But some of the means of transportation are already controlled by wireless communication.





Robberies will also go wireless (using "TV" technology).



Signatures on checks can be sent wirelessly to the bank, while the teller watches them on "TV." Wireless communication will be equally useful to the burglar, who will probably discover hidden valuables using portable radio measuring devices and other electrical methods.

Food will be delivered through pipes from public kitchens, "television" will replace illustrated newspapers.

Life will be greatly improved by personal cars, moving sidewalks and automatic telephones that will never make a mistake in dialing numbers.



Moreover, the professor actively frightened ordinary people by the fact that humanity will get rid of the harmful habit of smoking tobacco by 2025. The public was worried about this.



Professor Lowe says that smoking tobacco will be a thing of the past by 2025. Thank God, we will no longer be alive!

In 1915, they dreamed that in the future it would be possible to get from London to Paris in two hours. True, by airplane. Now the average flight time from London to Paris is 1 hour 20 minutes, but by plane.



In the year 2025 A.D. there will be fleets of giant airplanes capable of carrying fifty passengers from London to Paris and back in a couple of hours, or to Constantinople between breakfast and dinner; and for those in no such hurry, there will be air expresses on dozens of routes capable of carrying five hundred passengers from London to Edinburgh in three hours, or crossing the Atlantic between dawn and dusk on a summer's day.

The average man will wake up to a radio alarm clock, wear a synthetic felt suit and hat, and still be alert throughout the day.



Another scientist believed that life expectancy would reach 150 years, or even universal immortality would come.



The French believed that it would be possible to address the entire world at once, which would lead to the unification of the human race. The opportunity has appeared, the races do not want to unite.



Oil should have run out by now too.



Sad predictions: by 2025 there will be no more reasons to laugh in the world, baldness will become a common phenomenon.

So, dear descendants, why are you laughing, think about it, baldness is just around the corner.