If you thought your great-grandparents were too busy surviving the 1920s to predict the iPhone, think again. Archibald Montgomery Low, the OG futurist, envisioned everything from smart speakers to renewable energy in his 1925 crystal ball. His predictions make him look like a time-traveling Nostradamus—or at least someone who was tired of climbing stairs and hoped for escalators.

 

All the things about modern life that eccentric professor correctly predicted 100 years ago