THE CRAZIEST 2020 PREDICTIONS THAT NEVER HAPPENED
NO. 2: HAVING A PERSONAL HELICOPTERWOULD BECOME THE NEW NORM. Why drive when you can fly? In the 1951 issue of Popular Mechanics, Thomas E. Stimson Jr. suggested that personal helicopters would become more convenient in the future, consuming any type of fuel from “dime-a- gallon stove oil” to aviation gasoline, and they’d be affordably priced at $5,000 each. NO. 3: WE’LL PRODUCE CANDY FROM UNDERWEAR. In a 1950 article in Popular Mechanics, The New York Times science editor Waldemar Kaempffert made some extraordinarily strange predictions for the future. For one, we’d forget about cooking altogether. “Cooking as an art is only a memory in the minds of old people,” he wrote. “A few die-hards still broil a chicken or roast a leg of lamb, but the experts have developed ways of deep-freezing partially baked cuts
Mathematician and scientist D.G. Brennan wrote in 1968, “I shall not be surprised if on my 92nd birthday I am able to go for a ride in an anti-gravity car.” While we’re still far off from an anti-gravity car (we barely have self-driving cars!), 2020 is a sleek-looking, symmetrical number with plenty of mystique that’s drawn prophecies over the past 100 years. Let’s take a look at a few! NO. 1: A LIVE-IN APE WILL CLEANYOUR HOUSE AND TENDTHE GARDEN. A writer in the 1967 newsletter from The Futurist titled “Women and the Year 2000,” predicted that by 2020 “it may be possible to breed intelligent species of animals, such as apes, that will be capable of performing manual labor ... A live-in ape [could] do the cleaning and gardening chores.” Thankfully, your Roomba’s job is safe — for now.
of meat. Even soup and milk are delivered in the form of frozen bricks.”
While this is true in certain ways (restaurants often get soups delivered in frozen bags), he pushes it further, suggesting that science would completely change our food supply chain: “Thus sawdust and wood pulp are converted into sugary foods. Discarded paper table ‘linen’ and rayon underwear are bought by chemical factories to be converted into candy.” While we’re glad not to be eating underwear candy or chasing around a live-in ape butler in 2020, a personal helicopter might not be so bad. And who knows, there’s still a whole month of this year left!
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FESTIVE APPLE CIDER
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If you’re cutting back on calories, skip the eggnog and buttered rum this year and fill up your mug with this delicious mulled cider!
INGREDIENTS
1 lemon
2 tsp allspice berries
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1 gallon pure apple cider
1 inch fresh ginger, thinly sliced
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1 large orange, thinly sliced crosswise
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2 tbsp honey
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2 tsp whole cloves
3 cinnamon sticks
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DIRECTIONS
1. Using a paring knife, shave the lemon peel off in curls. Reserve the curls and save the lemon for use in a different recipe.
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2. In a large slow cooker, combine the lemon peel with all other ingredients. Cook on low for 3–4 hours.
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3. If desired, use a sieve to strain the spices. Serve and enjoy!
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