Scientist’s ‘ruthlessly imaginative’ 1925 predictions for the future come true – mostly
Prof Low anticipated home speakers and gender neutral clothing, but missed his mark on herb-based street lighting
When the scientist and inventor Prof Archibald Montgomery Low predicted “a day in the life of a man of the future” one century ago, his prophecies were sometimes dismissed as “ruthlessly imaginative”.
They included, reported the London Daily News in 1925, “such horrors” as being woken by radio alarm clock; communications “by personal radio set”; breakfasting “with loudspeaker news and television glimpses of events”; shopping by moving stairways and moving pavements.
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