Here are a few predictions for 2023 made by experts 100 years ago in 1923: Someone went through old newspaper articles from 1923 to see what experts were predicting back then for 2023.
1. People will work a max of four hours a day. The headline for that one was, "No More Hard Work by 2023!" They said electricity would make it possible. (In 1923, less than half of U.S. homes had power.)
2. No ugly people. They thought beauty pageants would become obsolete, because it would be almost impossible to choose a winner.
3. Women will paint their teeth black to be fashionable. Instead, a lot of people whiten their teeth now.
4. Gasoline will be replaced by radio waves. So, powering your car by blasting radio waves somehow.
5. The average life expectancy will be 100 years old . . . and another expert said 300. The average in the U.S. back then was just 57 years old, and now it's around 76.
6. Flying from Chicago to Germany will only take 18 hours. They were too conservative with that one. It's really half that now, around a nine-hour flight.
7. Cancer will be eradicated. Not yet, but we're making pretty good progress.
8. 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.
9. Telepathy will exist. That one said we'd even be able to speak telepathically with babies.
10. Kidney koozies. Like beer koozies, but to keep your internal organs warm.....Isn't that just a coat?