This is how they imagined 2023 100 years ago: Which predictions came true and which did not?

Man always worried about the

.

From remote antiquity to the present day,

dedicated themselves to predicting what would happen several decades later.

The dark prophecies of Nostradamus, the dramatic advances of Baba Vanga or, from literature,

have tried to imagine

.

And there is something that is inevitable to consider: we

.

Of course, there were many who in

devised worlds for the next century;

probable scenarios of a planet that did not stop advancing.

Man has always been concerned about the future and tried to anticipate it.

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Would robots replace us?

Between wild speculation and the scientific calculation of probabilities,

How did they imagine 2023 100 years ago?

These days,

, a researcher at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada, went

after he collected and posted newspaper clippings from 1923 in which different "futurologists" made their

.

I mean, today.

The

compiled some of these forecasts and published them.

Let's see what they are and which ones came true.

1-Women will be completely bald

According to an anthropologist from the turn of the last century, today we should look completely different.

In his opinion, our hair is what attracts the most attention.

would be in fashion

, while

In this sense, another expert believed that

in our time.

Why?

Because "all people will be beautiful", and it will simply be impossible to choose the most attractive one.

2-Working days will be 4 hours

In 1923, the eight-hour work day was considered a great achievement and an example of progressivism.

It just so happens that this work schedule did not become a reality in the United States until 1937, when the Fair Labor Standards Act was first proposed, noted

.

However, one expert predicted that by 2023 the

, thanks to the work of electricity."

100 years ago, an expert predicted that working days would be no more than four hours.

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3-Newspapers will be a thing of the past

100 years ago, some predicted that in 2023 newspapers would already have disappeared 50 years earlier and we would only listen to the news.

Something that, in part, may be true.

It so happens that in the 1920s, the

became a new way to listen to news and other important events, but print media, such as newspapers, remained the dominant source of information for most.

However, as technology advanced, more people were moving away from newspapers and replacing them with more current options.

4-Promising life expectancy

According to the predictions of 1923, we should currently have an average life of

.

In isolated cases it could increase to

.

There were even some who went further and dared to say that it would be

.

Historically, life expectancy has increased year after year thanks to medical advances and a higher quality of life, but we have not reached that anticipated level. 

According to experts from the beginning of the last century, the average life in 2023 would be 100 years.

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5-Wireless warfare and intrauterine telepathy

In 1923 Professor AM Low predicted that our world would be

.

In this sense, he supposed that the information would be transmitted through atomized water charged with electricity and, consequently, "the war of 2023" would begin, which would also become

.

In addition, the professor affirmed that at this point humans would communicate through

(even as embryos in the womb) which he described as a "very useful communication method".

The appearance of the "Smartwatch"

This prediction for 2023 could be the most disturbing and accurate to date.

It tells of a world where most goods are ordered on "talking movies" from China and delivered on huge "1,000-mile-an-hour freighters" that bring your order closer before sundown.

Furthermore, unbelievable but true, the prediction also assumes that the entire world will communicate via "watch-sized radios" that can connect us to anyone on the planet.

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