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Thursday 12 January 2012
January 11th- Predictions
In 1900 an American civil engineer named John Elfreth Watkins made a number of predictions about how life would be lived in the year 2000. He correctly predicted the rise of digital photography, mobile phones, TV, tanks, ready meals and a 2 inch rise in average height. Although he got a few things wrong, like the removal of C X and Q from the English alphabet, I thought it was cool nonetheless.
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