Monday, January 16, 2012

Monday Bonus Post! 1911 Predicts 2011!

There will be no C, X, or Q in our every day alphabet... English will be a language of condensed words expressing condensed ideas...
~John Elfreth Watkind, predicting 2011 in 1911

I guess there was no way to foresee how crucial the letter C would be to our condensed language.

He was really not too far off on some of these! Click image to enlarge.


Here is an analysis of 10 predcitions he got right: Ten 100-year predictions that came true.

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