Viral: 1924 newspaper's predictions for life in 2024

One of the things that many like to know at the start of a new year is what could life throw at them in the forthcoming 12 months, which would make their life interesting.

A newspaper in 1924 had published a few events that could happen in 100 years time and in an X (formerly Twitter) thread, that has gone viral, Paul Fairie- a research associate at University of Calgary in Canada- shared photos from the predictions published in a newspaper, one of which said that horses would go extinct this year.

In another prediction, it said that automobiles will witness a surge in 2024 and podcasts will become very popular. Additionally, movies were predicted to bring world peace and would eventually become a global language and help eliminate conflict worldwide.

Another prediction was that the public would spend more time watching movies at home and with the advent and gain in popularity of OTT platforms in the last few years, one can say that this prediction has come true. Readmore!

However, a few predictions made in the newspaper were a bit off the mark, to say the least. One of them was that beds would automatically fling children out in the morning.

Another prediction for 2024 was that trains would travel two or three times faster and also offer provision to watch movies while travelling from one place to another. There were also other strange predictions such as human beings hopping from one planet to another.

The post saw many user comments, who debated some of the predictions made in the newspaper.

"So interesting that "out of use in service of our lives and commerce" = "likely extinct".I wonder how that mode of thinking pervades other thinking. Makes me think of all the AI predictions (except humans going extinct tends to be a more extreme prediction there)," one user wrote.

"This is actually really interesting. There were so many draft horses as vital parts of labor at the beginning of the 20th century; my current work studying the remains of a pathology-riddled mining draft horse has really brought home to me what they endured," another user wrote.