Admit your insight - things you knew all along that have now become public knowledge.

[Drago]

As it says on the tin.

I was right about a certain 60s and 70s DJ.

What were your right about?

 

[Bonefish Blues]

The prevalence of cloud computing. The ability to have a mobile device with useful real-time data.

Yours, Nostradamus

 

[Drago]

I predicted well in advance that Bill Gates would be a bit of a ladies man. The V neck seater under tweed sport coat look is an obvious distraction technique.

 

[DRM]

Mobile phones, I remember saying to my mate round 1975/76 that one day we will have a personal 2 way radio that will be able to communicate with someone elses, just like a phone, not just transmitting so everyone similarly equiped can hear you

 

[DCLane]

Back in 1981 I gave a talk in a public speaking competition about the 'cashless society'. I was poo-poohed at the time.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Time travel, I predicted it in 3241.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Climate change in 1976

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Mental and physical and health benefits of an active lifestyle

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

The night before the Carmount (Stonehaven) train crash, the night was unsettled with thunder and lightning in the distance.
I had such a bad feeling that something was going to happen, I didn't know what although I half thought it might be a plane crash (seriously). I just sensed something bad was going to occur.
I was out walking and actually ran home, I felt so strange. The night felt so dark, brooding, threatening.

Fast forwards a few hours and it was not a plane crash, but a train crash. I got 3 letters correct at least. 😱

 

[mustang1]

Mental and physical and health benefits of an active lifestyle

My SO, years ago, used to tell me that my running was pointless because I don't get any money for it.
To have fun was useless because you're only ever supposed to work and be productive.

Now, years later, she has updated her thinking to be more in line with mine.

 

[ColinJ]

I insisted that Lance Armstrong was not riding clean...

I told a schoolfriend in the late 1960s that in our lifetime we would be able to buy a personal computer that was more powerful than a mainframe computer of the time costing millions of pounds and filling a large hall. This personal computer would fit into a suitcase, cost less than £25,000, be able to store, create, and play back music, photos, and video, and be able to store thousands of books worth of data. He looked at me as if I was crazy... Little did we realise that my forecast was actually very conservative!

 

[Sharky]

Climate change in 1976

That was a hot summer, as was the summer of '59

 

[Chris S]

Climate change in 1976

I'm not surprised - there was a drought in the summer of '76. It was one of the hottest on record at that time.

 

[Accy cyclist]

That one day smart, then smart but casual men's wear and ladies wear for that matter, would become a thing of the past. 🧐

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

For the coming years:

One day we will all be dead and maybe this forum, this thread, even this message will be saved somewhere as a historic record of how people lived in the early 21st Century.
We'll be 'famous'! 😆


Seriously though, short of a complete breakdown of civilisation as we know it, I reckon future historians will know a LOT about us due to the Internet, films and so on.

For the first time, history will be written by the masses, the common man and not a handful of intellectuals or the great and the good of the time.

I also wonder if there will be archeological digs at old rubbish dumps/landfill sites, etc.