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A lot of people have weighed in with predictions for what to expect in 2023 but it's interesting to hear what people were predicting for this year way back in 1923.
A Canadian history professor dug through some old newspapers and found some really wild thoughts -- and some that weren't that far off the mark. According to Paul Fairie, 100 years ago, people predicted 2023 would see ...
- Treatments for polio and tuberculosis
- A cure for cancer
- Fashionable women would blacken their teeth in search of beauty
- There would be no more beauty contests because EVERYONE would be gorgeous
- We'd be able to fly from Chicago to Europe in just 18 hours
- Watch-size radio telephones would keep everybody "in communication with the ends of the earth"