The Year 2011, as Seen from the Year 1931

A 1930s vision of the future includes Flash Gordon and some fancy duds.

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Via NPR: Eighty years ago, the New York Times asked a bunch of experts in various fields to predict what the world would be like in 2011.

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The sociologist William Ogburn was off in a few big ways — he predicted the end of poverty, and said the population would be 160 million (it’s nearly twice that). Nevertheless, a lot of what he wrote rings true today.

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