1925's Crazy Predictions for 2025—What Actually Came True? | Smartest Year Ever (Apr 12, 2025)
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In this episode, Gordy digs into some wildly optimistic (and occasionally insulting) predictions made in 1925 about the world we’d be living in today, in 2025. From flying cars and rooftop airports to the disappearance of beauty itself, futurists from a century ago weren’t exactly short on opinions.Featuring forecasts from scientists, novelists, and newspaper editors, this episode unpacks five of the most striking predictions made in the roaring 1920s. Some came close—like H.G. Wells’s vision of a global trifecta of power. Others? Well… let’s just say humanity is still very beautiful and very much stuck in traffic.This episode commemorates over 100 episodes of Smartest Year Ever and asks: what will we get wrong about 2125?Source:Price, M. (2024, Jan 5). From immortality to ugly people: 100-year-old predictions about 2025. Akron Beacon Journal. https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/2024/01/05/what-people-in-1925-predicted-about-life-in-2025/72101552007/ #FuturePredictions #HistoryOfTheFuture #SmartestYearEver #1925to2025 #WildHistory #DidYouKnow #FunFacts #LearnEveryDay #futurology
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