In 1922, A Novelist Predicted What The World Will Look Like By 2022

A whole century ago, English novelist W.L. George predicted what the world would look like in 2022. Some of his predictions included wireless telephones, eight-hour flights to Europe, and much more. You just have to see what he wrote to believe that some of his predictions actually came true.

He wrote of a world in which “commercial flying will have become entirely commonplace,” in addition to “wireless telegraphy and wireless telephones will have crushed the cable system,” which means there will be newer generations who will never have to see “a wire outlined against the sky.”

W.L. George predicted 2022—and quite a bit of it came true

As for cinema, he predicted, “the figures on the screen will not only move, but they will have their natural colors and speak with ordinary voices. Thus, the stage as we know it today may entirely disappear, which does not mean the doom of art, since the movie actress of 2022 will not only need to know how to smile but also how to talk.”

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And as for women, in general, he saw them having a very high place in the modern world of 2022. “All positions will be open to them and a great many women will have risen high. The year 2022 will probably see a large number of women in Congress, a great many on the judicial bench, many in civil service posts, and perhaps some in the President’s Cabinet,” he wrote.

As a whole, he touts the evolution of science, but how it’s “nothing like so amazing as is the present day in relation to a hundred years ago.” He predicts the birth-control pill, but also the “pill lunch.” He hesitates to declare the abolition of the family, but does imagine the “majority of mankind” occupying modular homes in high-rise communal dwellings, according to openculture.com. Stuff like this certainly makes you wonder what they’d think of 2022 today.

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