A century ago, when the scientist and inventor prof. Archibald Montgomery Low predicted “a day in the life of a man of the future”, his prophecies have sometimes been described as “ruthlessly aberrant”.
According to the London Daily News in 1925, these included “horrors” such as being woken up by a radio alarm clock; communication “with the help of a personal radio”; breakfast “with news broadcast over loudspeakers and pictures of events broadcast over television”; shopping on stairs and moving sidewalks.
One hundred years after the publication of Low’s book The Future, some of his predictions were correct. Others, including his prophecy that everyone would wear one-piece suits and synthetic felt hats, were less successful.
Low’s prophecies for the people of 2025
Researchers at the online genealogy service Findmypast have found accounts of Low’s predictions in the vast digital archive of historical newspapers made available to the public and included them in an on-the-fly collection of predictions made for 2025 by people a century ago.
Low, born in 1888, was an engineer, research physicist, inventor and author. A pioneer in many fields, he invented the first powered drone, worked on the development of television, was known as the “father of radio guidance systems” for his work on aircraft, torpedoes and guided missiles, and allegedly attracted at least two failed assassination attempts from the Germans, appropriately The Guardian.
Major investments in offshore wind and solar power in recent years seem to fulfill another prediction: “wind and tide will also be put to the service of man.” And one more: “Life will become much easier through the use of machines that will make all hard work unpleasant.”
Wellness, on the list of prophecies
According to a newspaper article, the average person “will be punctually called by a radio alarm clock set to receive the specific signal at the time he wishes to wake up.” Before the advent of automatic alarms, people were woken up for work by a morning ‘knocker upper’, a person who went from door to door knocking on windows with a long wooden stick, which did not disappear in Britain until the 1940s and 1950s .
Another prophecy that every morning people will enjoy “a few moments of radiation therapy or massage to keep them fit and alert for the day’s activity” seems to fit in with modern health and wellness trends in our days.
Sexist prophecy, frowned upon
Low, who has died aged 68, continued to make predictions throughout his life. Not all were well seen. In 1929 the Daily Express reported, with some indignation, that the professor was something of a “hardened conservative” who had declared that it would be centuries before “women approach men in intelligence” and only when they will take on the “physical characteristics of men”.
“A doctor in Munich just prophesied that women who cut their hair short will grow beards in time. She and Professor Low should meet,” the paper said.
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Source: www.descopera.ro
