1923 Predicts the Future

Minneapolis Journal: It is an attractive prophecy that Glenn Curtiss, the airplane authority, gives of air-flight. He predicts that by the year 2023 gasoline as a motive power will have been replaced by radio, and that the skies will be filled with myriad craft sailing over well-defined routes.

A vintage newspaper clipping presents a 1923 prediction about aviation in the year 2023, claiming that radio would replace gasoline and the skies would fill with aircraft on defined routes. The joke comes from the wildly inaccurate futuristic forecast, especially the idea that radio waves would power airplanes. EN: A vintage newspaper clipping presents a 1923 prediction about aviation in the year 2023, claiming that radio would replace gasoline and the skies would fill with aircraft on defined routes. The joke comes from the wildly inaccurate futuristic forecast, especially the idea that radio waves would power airplanes.

• @beobanka / 21853 2023-01-04