I'll leave this open for you guys to fill in the blanks.
The Simpsons and Back to the Future 2 are better at making predictions than the watchtower corporation.
by hoser 5 Replies latest jw friends
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stuckinarut2
Ok ok...I'll bite.
So, based on the idea that the paradise will consist of a vegan diet, the Simpsons well prophesied: "You don't win friends with salad!, you dont win friends with salad!"
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hoser
The Simpsons predicted a trump presidency and back to the future predicted the cubs winning the World Series but were a year off
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snare&racket
Check this out (an earlier op I made)
Mr Isaac Asimov made some predictions for 2014, (please note the lack of ambigous monsters of several heads and horns)....he was very, very specific all the way back in 1964....
Communications will become sight-sound and you will see as well as hear the person you telephone. The screen can be used not only to see the people you call but also for studying documents and photographs and reading passages from books. Synchronous satellites hovering in space will make it possible for you to direct-dial any spot on Earth.
By 2014, only unmanned ships will have landed on Mars, though a manned expedition will be in the work.
Gadgetry will continue to relieve mankind of tedious jobs. Kitchen units will be devised that will prepare 'automeals', heating water..
Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence.
Men will continue to withdraw from nature in order to create an environment that will suit them better. By 2014, electroluminescent panels will be in common use.
Wall screens will have replaced the ordinary television set; but transparent cubes will be making their appearance in which three-dimensional viewing will be possible.
The world of AD 2014 will have few routine jobs that cannot be done better by some machine than by any human being. Mankind will therefore have become largely a race of machine tenders.
All the high-school students will be taught the fundamentals of computer technology.
Although technology will still keep up with population through 2014, it will be only through a supreme effort and with but partial success. Not all the world's population will enjoy the gadgetry world of the future to the full. A larger portion than today will be deprived and although they may be better off, materially, than today, they will be further behind when compared with the advanced portions of the world. They will have moved backward, relatively
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Vidiot
Smart guy, Asimov.
Nailed almost all of 'em.