#1311: 2014 explain

(This is a series of quotes from various people of various timeframes. Each quote is followed by the author, the document of publication if applicable, and the year.)

Notes from the past

It’s desirable every thing printed should be preserved, for we cannot now tell how useful it may become two centuries hence.

Christopher Baldwin

1834

I predict that a century hence the Canadian people will be the noblest specimens of humanity on the face of the earth

Rev. John Bredin

1863

In the twenty-first century mankind will subsist entirely upon jellies.

The Booklover

1903

The twenty-first century baby is destined to be rocked and cradled by electricity, warmed and coddled by electricity, perhaps fathered and mothered by electricity. Probably the only thing he will be left to do unaided will be to make love.

Mrs. John Lane, The fortnightly

1905

To-day, in the city of New York, sixty-six different tongues are spoken. A century hence, there will probably be only one.

The American Historical Magazine

1907

I often think what interesting history we are making for the student of the twenty-first century.

Willian Carey Jones

1908

China may be a great shoe market a decade or a century from now.

Boot and Shoe Recorder

1914

We cannot settle the problem, and I venture the prophecy that perhaps a century from now this same question may be brought before some future society and discussed very much as it is tonight.

Dr. Barton C. Hirst on the subject of abortion

1914

By the twenty-first century I believe we shall all be telepaths.

Gumbriel, character in Antic Hay

1923

The physician of the twenty-first century… may even criticize the language of the times, and may find that some of our words have become as offensive to him as the term “lunatic” has become offensive to us.

Dr. C. Macfie Campbell

1924

Historians of the twenty-first century will look back with well-placed scorn on the shallow-minded days of the early twentieth century when football games and petting parties were considered the most important elements of a college education.

Mary Eileen Ahern, Library Bureau

1926

In the year A.D. 2014 journalists will be writing on the centenary of the great war — that is, if there has not been a greater war.

F.J.M, The Journalist

1934