1900’s predictions for 2000
The “Ladies Home Journal” of December 1900 contained a fascinating article by John Elfreth Watkins, Jr entitled “What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years”. You can read it here.
I particularly this: ‘Wireless telephone and telegraph circuits will span the world. A husband in the middle of the Atlantic will be able to converse with his wife sitting in her boudoir in Chicago. We will be able to telephone to China quite as readily as we now talk from New York to Brooklyn. By an automatic signal they will connect with any circuit in their locality without the intervention of a “hello girl”.’
Spot on! But no reference to anything like the Internet.