8 Bizarre Futurist Predictions That Never Came True
 

8 Bizarre Futurist Predictions That Never Came True
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Our visions of the future have always been more complex than hoverboards and self-lacing sneakers.

Sure, there were the various tropes from many bad sci-fi ****** (and a few good ones), such as food in pill form, flying cars, personal jetpacks and robot butlers. But futurists also envisioned brave new worlds that have since been entirely forgotten — the death of the letters C, X and Q, for example, **t to mention the use of discarded underwear to manufacture candy (ew).

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We doff our caps to Paleofuture for making these future-happy predictions from years hence so easily available. Below, we've resuscitated a few of our favorites, which have yet to come true Read more...

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