Grand Opera over the Telephone?

John Elfreth Watkins writing in the Ladies Home Journal in December 1900 predicts a radically different world for the next 100 years. Fascinating perspective on a changing world.

Highlights include the loss of C, X and Q from language. Russian will be the second most widespread language. There will be no wild animals and mosquitos will be practically eradicated. Cars will cost less than horses and air ships will be developed , but not as a major mode of public transport, where trips to Europe are likely to be made by fast boats.

I wonder what we can expect in the next 100 years. Clearly our mindset is very controlled by a very narrow perspective based on our own current world view. Whatever happens most of us will be dead.