It's well known that prediction is fraught with peril, especially when it's about the future. But if the future is past, then analyzing predictions about that past future is like an unwrapped present. (Tense yet?) A friend recently sent me an article from the December 1900 issue of the La dies' Home Journal, in which one John Elfreth Wat-kins, Jr., listed a series of predictions for the year 2000. Let's look at some of those prognostications now that 2000 is as gone as Watkins.
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