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renaissance poisson ([personal profile] piranha) wrote2007-09-25 09:06 pm
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predictions for the future

from the ladies' home journal, december 1900.

that's actually very impressive. they completely didn't expect the computer and the airplane, and they didn't dare say anything about contraception, but a lot of their expectations did come about. much of it not quite in the way they anticipated, but still. i don't think that i could do as well today.

love the preoccupation with pneumatic tubes. pneumatic tubes! i wish for them! they make my steampunky heart happy.

(via [livejournal.com profile] james_nicoll and [livejournal.com profile] epi_lj.)

[personal profile] desh 2007-09-26 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
Lots of pneumatic tubes, but no internet. One wonders if Ted Stevens has read this.