Dismissed as a crank when alive, English inventor Archibald Montgomery Low made 100 predictions in 1925 about our lives today.
A century on, what did he get right?
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A century on, what did he get right?
#2025 #future #tech #predictions
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00:00Dismissed as a crank when alive, English inventor Archibald Montgomery Lowe made 100 predictions in 1925 about our lives today.
00:08A century on, what did he get right? Lowe predicted mobile phone technology.
00:13He said home loudspeakers and televisual screens would replace newspapers in popularity, foresaw the invention of the alarm clock,
00:19and said a moving sidewalks, basically escalators and travelators, would combat tiredness.
00:24Lowe prophesied both wind and tidal energy by 2025, and said machines would replace humans in performing heavy and disagreeable work.
00:32He did get some calls spectacularly wrong, though.
00:35Most of us don't wear synthetic felt one-piece suits and hats or special glasses in cinemas,
00:40allowing us to view films from a menu, while daily massages for all workers remains a pipe dream.
00:45Although by 2125, could he be proved right?