"My predictions were right."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.

From Improvement Era, 1947.

"By 2030 two or three simple costumes will have been devised for men—one for formal occasions , one for all workaday purposes.  Each will be as rational, as well-suited to its purpose, and as healthy as the clothes which women wear to-day."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1947.

By the year 2047, "there will be no literary tastes and no literature."  A mob of machine drivers will rule.  Every hour will be lived by mankind in talk, nothing but talk.  There will be no silence, no retirement, no village life.  A gaping crowd of conceited fools will be everywhere.  There will be no calm, contented days, no beautiful nights, no good works.  All will be the same, all common.  Thought and inspiration will be dead."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1947.

From Prediction Machines (2018).

"All these centuries, all that men have accomplished, and yet we know knowing about what's going to happen tomorrow."  From Dark Shadows episode 1073.

"'There's no telling what's going to happen, is there?'  'No, not even the computers can fugure that out yet.'"  From Dark Shadows episode 1073.

From East Carolina's 1976 yearbook.

This 1908 prediction of airships circling the globe is a near hit, as it foresees satellites.  From Satirikon, 1908.

A 1912 prediction for 1960.  Eerily accurate!  From The Judge.

We like how this prediction of future cars also shows humans evolving.  From Lustige Blätter, 1903.

"The flying machine of the future will probably be based upon the structure of a flying bird, the louvers in the wings corresponding to the action of the bird's feathers," from Harmsworth Magazine, 1900.

New York City in 1974, as predicted in Popular Mechanics, 1924.

"By means of the telectroscope we shall not only be able to listen to the distant orator but shall watch his actions as well."  From Harmsworth Magazine, 1900.

A prediction of New York from 1926, Popular Mechanics.

"Feather-covered dirigibles predicted for the future."  From Popular Mechanics, 1930.  Big Science back then (as now) can't see the forest for the trees.  The naiveté would almost be charming, if not for the smugness behind everything in vintage Popular Mechanics.  (We daren't look at more modern issues.  The white-coat New Inquisition, as Robert Anton Wilson called them, terrifies us.)

"Noiseless city is predicted within ten years."  From 1931.  The naiveté would be quaint were Popular Mechanics not so excruciatingly, sickeningly smug about the religion it makes of Big Science.

Eerily prescient!  The future of Boston, from c. 1910.

Here's a prediction of the whale bus of the year 2000.