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Thomas Edison's 1911 Predictions for 2011

Posted January 24, 2011 8:26 AM

From Neatorama:

The 23 June 1911 issue of the Miami Metropolis featured predictions by Thomas Edison about life in America one hundred years hence. Here's a selection from of prophecies of "the Wizard", as the author refers to Edison: But the traveler of the future, says a writer in Answers, will largely scorn such earth crawling. He will fly through the air, swifter than any swallow, at a speed of two hundred miles an hour, in colossal machines, which will enable him to breakfast in London, transact business in Paris and eat his luncheon in Cheapside.

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Re: Thomas Edison's 1911 Predictions for 2011

02/11/2011 9:29 AM

It would have been far more interesting to hear what Nikola Tesla had predicted in 100 years.

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