Internet Oddities and Eccentricity at Bunch of Nerds » Prediction http://bunchofnerds.com A blog for nerds from nerds Sun, 01 Jan 2012 08:41:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Victorian Postcards From 1900 About the Year 2000 http://bunchofnerds.com/2009/11/interesting/victorian-postcards-from-1900-about-the-year-2000/ http://bunchofnerds.com/2009/11/interesting/victorian-postcards-from-1900-about-the-year-2000/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:43:33 +0000 seth http://bunchofnerds.com/?p=1629 These postcards, handed out by a German chocolate company at the turn of the century, attempted to predict what life might have been like in the year 2000 based on the developing technology of those days. I think my favorite is either the city with a ceiling or the weather machine… But wouldn’t they have been mutually exclusive?

X-Ray Surveillance Machine
x-ray_police

Weather Machine
weather_machine

Aqua Train
water_train

Walking on Water
walk_on_water

Broadcasting Sound & Images
the_theater

Underwater Boat / Submarine
submarine

Escalator / Moving Walkway
moving_walkways

Movable City Blocks
moving_buildings

Flying Contraptions
flying_contraption

City w/ Ceiling
city_ceiling

Hot Air Family Zeppelin, pre-Hindenburg
balloon_travel

Arctic Vacation Fly-By
arctic_vacation

Via The Card Mine

]]> http://bunchofnerds.com/2009/11/interesting/victorian-postcards-from-1900-about-the-year-2000/feed/ 203 Prediction: The U.S. Collapse of 2010; States to be Divided Up Between Russia, Canada, Mexico and China http://bunchofnerds.com/2009/09/japan/prediction-the-us-collapse-of-2010-states-to-be-divided-up-between-russia-canada-mexico-and-china/ http://bunchofnerds.com/2009/09/japan/prediction-the-us-collapse-of-2010-states-to-be-divided-up-between-russia-canada-mexico-and-china/#comments Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:18:01 +0000 seth http://bunchofnerds.com/?p=1533 A Russian professor says the United States of America will disintegrate within the next year due to a fiscal meltdown. For ex KGB and Russian national security advisor, Igor Panarin, this claim is nothing new as he first made it in 1998 when the US economy was doing well. But now, due to the world economic crisis and the possibility of Japan transferring their monetary reserves from US dollars into another currency, his prediction has garnered new attention (surprisingly enough, even from the Wall Street Journal).

Panarin says that the US is in such great debt, that it will, by 2010, no longer be able to remain sovereign. His map indicates which parts of the US will be absorbed into which countries. Thank goodness the Midwest becomes Canadian! Now we won’t have to drive over the border to get our prescriptions filled!

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