The Amazing Future of 2008

Amazing predictions of the future! Guaranteed to come true!

Yeah, I admit it, this article would have been a lot better to address six years ago on September 22, 2008, but I wasn’t keeping a blog then. On the other hand, we can just retroject this thing. Pretend that the blog is at this point more than six years old and you’ve stumbled on something I wrote back then. Would it really make it any better. I think a couple of my footnotes aren’t what I would have written six years ago.

The piece I’ve stumbled upon is from the New York Evening World of September 22, 1908. The writer, Helen Vail Wallace, seems to have been a writer of light entertainment pieces; the World has several which are advice to women under the title “Just 1 Minute, Sisters!” each on a different topic (she advises the “fussy and nervous” to take a cool sponge bath daily, and the hasty eater to chew each mouthful thirty times, describing twenty times as “the lowest safe limit”). In her September 22 piece, Ms. Williams is predicting New York of 2008.

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