"What May Happen..."

Flying refrigerators? Mexico and Nicaragua admitted to the Union as states? The elimination of the entire cockroach population? All by the year 2000?

In December 1900, the Ladies Home Journal published an article by John Elfreth Watkins, Jr. titled: “What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years". Watkins, author of several mystery and detective novels, interviewed a variety of academics for a list of nearly thirty predictions of what life would be like in the year 2000. For more old predictions of a future that never quite happened visit the Paleo-Future blog, which has some pretty good images of robots and monorails reminiscent of the Jetsons.