In 1922, author W.L. George imagined what life would be like in 2022. He came pretty darn close.
In 1922, author W.L. George imagined what life would be like in 2022. He came pretty darn close.
If George was wrong in places, it was, I think, because he was too optimistic. He believed the United States would be more “settled” in 2022. The zeal that drove the pioneers across the continent would be exhausted. Instead of scrapping for wealth, Americans would put that energy toward producing art and literature.
He predicted “a great liberalism of mind” and a sort of national homogeneity. “The American from Key West and American from Seattle will be much the same kind of man,” he wrote.
There was a tinge of nostalgia in George’s prose, a nostalgia for a future he would not know. “The sad thing about discovery,” he wrote, “is that it works toward its own extinction, and that the more we discover the less there is left.”
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video: Futurist From 1922 Makes Weirdly Accurate Predictions For 2022
haven't read the article but I'm assuming he didn't predict "we will kill God in a global ritual with its simultaneous poles the manhattan project and the holocaust, then we will all cook to death and drive every animal larger than a toaster to extinction, leaving behind us a world dead and ours"