In December of 1900, a civil engineer in The Ladies Home Journal made predictions so accurate about today it's spooky. In December of 1900, a civil engineer named John Elfreth Watkins, Jr. wrote an article for The Ladies Home Journal titled “What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years” and his predictions put most futurists to shame. Nostradamus had to write gibberish to get generous interpretations of his vague events, Watkins went on the record with specifics and was spooky in his accuracy. Years ago, Wired used to publish an annual issue named The Wired World In 20-- where everyone from me to Richard Branson to James Dyson would try and predict short-term events. He predicted we'd be two inches or more taller - the average man was 5'7" in 1900 and 5'9" in 2000.