# Predictions from 1900

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predictions-from-1900/494191>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 24, 2009, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predictions-from-1900/494191 "2009-04-24T06:22:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2009, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predictions-from-1900/494191/21 "2009-04-25T19:20:31Z")

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[Historical life expectancies](http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005140.html). According to that, someone born in 1900 already had a life expectancy of nearly 50 years.

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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2009, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predictions-from-1900/494191/22 "2009-04-25T19:22:23Z")

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I could get behind peas as big as beets-I loves me some green peas!

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**Author:** ![Alex\_Dubinsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dbc845/32.png) [@Alex\_Dubinsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alex_Dubinsky)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2009, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predictions-from-1900/494191/23 "2009-04-25T23:04:55Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> From Prediction #2:What in the world is that supposed to mean? Sure, life expectancy has increased a bit in the past century, but I’m certain it wasn’t as low as 35 years.

I figured they started counting from 18, thinking that childhood just doesn’t count as life. Pretty twisted, but what else can it be?

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**Author:** ![Alex\_Dubinsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dbc845/32.png) [@Alex\_Dubinsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alex_Dubinsky)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2009, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predictions-from-1900/494191/24 "2009-04-25T23:09:24Z")

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> [@Guinastasia](#):
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> I could get behind peas as big as beets

I wonder how big their beets were, or their apples. I was eating some freakishly large strawberries the other day. Easily as big as the small wild apples I find in my park. When I saw them I thought, “sign of the times.”

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**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2009, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predictions-from-1900/494191/25 "2009-04-25T23:53:42Z")

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> [@Martini\_Enfield](#):
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> I’m a huge fan of Retro-Futurism (basically, how people in The Past thought THE FUTURE! would look)

This guy didn’t predict food pills though. Most retro futures include food pills.

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