Can we predict the future?

The start of a new year always brings out predictions for the coming year. Sometimes it's fun to go back to earlier predictions and see how accurate they were.

In 1900 the world faced not a new year, but a new century. This led to a rush of predictions of what the new century would bring. In France, a group published a series of postcards telling us what the year 2000 would look like. How well did they do?

First off, we wouldn't walk much.

Even the police would be up there for us.

And the post office.

House cleaning would be much easier.

Kids wouldn't have to study nearly as hard in school.

A trip to the barber shop would be less stressful.

We would watch pictures projected on walls in our houses.

Letter writing would be much easier.

What a world it would be in 2000. So where will be 100 years from now? Or even 10?