Ostensible predictions for 2000 made a hundred years earlier in 1900, via Cowen. This list is tripping up my hoax-meter, but if it's real, it's quite enjoyable, ranging from wild underestimates (New York to London in two days!) to wild overestimates (a strange obsession with large produce) to a few that are almost but not quite right (a strange obsession with networks of pneumatic tubes) and a couple that are frighteningly spot on. On which side will today's prediction of the singularity be?

Update: Not a hoax. A reader generously sends me a pdf, which I'd post but for the extensive (but perhaps incorrect) copyright notice. The sequence is different from the web-page, but the text (including the word "suburbs") is accurate every place I've double-checked.