Predictions For 2011 – From 1931
Henry Ford
With thanks to disinformation reader JMD for sending us the link, the Abnormal Use blog reviews predictions for the future 80 years hence, made in 1931 by such luminaries of the time as Henry Ford and physician and Mayo Clinic co-founder W. J. Mayo:
…What did the great minds of 1931 predict the rapidly approaching 2011 would be like?
There is actually an answer to that question.
Way back on September 13, 1931, The New York Times, founded in 1851, decided to celebrate its 80th anniversary by asking a few of the day’s visionaries about their predictions of 2011 – 80 years in their future. Those assembled were big names for 1931: physician and Mayo Clinic co-founder W. J. Mayo, famed industrialist Henry Ford, anatomist and anthropologist Arthur Keith, physicist and Nobel laureate Arthur Compton, chemist Willis R. Whitney, physicist and Nobel laureate Robert Millikan, physicist and chemist Michael Pupin, and sociologist William F. Ogburn.…
