German electrical engineer Charles Proteus Steinmetz claims that by 2023, electricity will be doing all the hard work and people would not have to work for more than four hours a day. Steinmetz also says that cities will be totally free of pollution and litter in 2023.
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More wacky Steinmetz conjectures:
The eccentric electrician elucidates that cities will be “spotless,” and electricity will be as universal as cleaning water.
Workers will toil 4 hours/day, 200 days/year and spend their leisure time on productive activities such as gardening.
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Predictions about the future have often been ambitious, hopeful, and sometimes a little crazy.
Here are a series of predictions made last year about 2022, 99 years from now.
The New York Herald makes a series of predictions about what the world may be like in 100 years, in 2022:
- commercial flying will be common, and passengers will fly from London to New York in 8-12 hours.
- American railroads will mostly carry freight rather than passengers.
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@100YearsAgoLive
He was correct for his time 100 years ago , good that we will not be around to check what engineers say today about 2123...
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@100YearsAgoLive
Electricity indeed does a lot of hard work, which we don't even know about. Some people do work only 4 hours a day, and some cities are free of pollution. He is right there. He was wrong stating that would be the general situation. People find creative ways of being destructive.
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@100YearsAgoLive
He underestimated our greed. Demand for new things overtook satisfaction with 'enough' for 1923.
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