On the 31st December 1999, the British people were polled on events they thought were likely to occur by 2100. These were the results..

No. 3 is a big oof

72% believing we’d become part of a federal Europe….

😭

The last one becoming true out of all them is such a British thing to happen

Mind-blowing that the % of people believing in the reality of climate change has probably gone *down* even as the evidence has gone up.

Heavy traffic (caused by the roads being clogged by too many people in cars) will deter most people from using their cars?

We’re more likely to take holidays to space than beat a team in a sport that we invented and have no obvious predisposed disadvantage at?

Who were these fools?

We’ve still got another 75 years to go, any -or all – of these things could happen by then.

If most people are deterred from using cars then there wouldn’t be heavy traffic to deter most people

Pretty good! When people had common sense.

Well… we may be heading for another great plague soon enough.

Another world war? That is looking increasingly likely.

RoboCamilla in the year 2100 sounds like a decent Dr Who plot. Bonus points if Charles is trapped in a pocket dimension in her metal trousers*.

*BBC is never going to approve the obvious version of this.

A 70 year old woman giving birth is outrageous. Fml, pop then you drop 🙄

So more people believed we’d holiday in space versus England winning the ashes? Hahaha

Thinking that there will be massive climate change, a world war, and a nuclear war, and that people will be richer than their parents?

It’s not quite backwards list but some of the less predicted outcomes have happened while the more hopeful ones like beating cancer seem far off.

Hasn’t England won the Ashes a couple times for example?

World hunger is also nit quite eradicate but better than it has ever been

What I forgot when I first read this is to occur by the year 2100 , I suspect most people will be richer than there parents at this point and we’re got the years now of slow growth which will lead to a decline in birth rate , and will lightly mean there more jobs and less people , leading to company’s paying more even if stuff goes automated it’s always gonna need people to check stuff.

With 25 years gone, we’ve achieved:

– Queen Camilla

– Ashes win

– Space tourism

We’re well on the way to achieving:

– Global universal literacy ([currently 87%, up from 80% at the year 2000](https://ourworldindata.org/literacy))

– Anthropic climate change as an existential threat, likely leading to

– Nuclear war, which may well become

– World War Three (though I know that WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones)

We probably won’t see:

– Life expectancy hit 100 in the UK, if anything it’s in decline because of

– Relative poverty of younger people leading to worse health outcomes earlier in life

– Britain won’t be part of a federal European nation

– Though the jury is out on Scottish independence

– Women giving birth at 70 would require spectacular new medical technology

– As would cures for most forms of cancer

We definitely won’t see:

– An end to world hunger. There’s already enough food and we can’t distribute it.

– A plague that kills billions would end the world as we know it. We are much more interconnected now than we were in the 14th century. Like nuclear war, there’s no point living in fear of it.

– The end of driving.

– Human cloning.

– Gender equality among heads of government

– First contact, unless you count the most elementary radio messages like digits of Pi or the Fibonacci sequence

Won multiple ashes since then, the British public on fraud watch

Massive vote of confidence for the England Cricket Team, there.