'No more hard work by 2023!': Researcher collects wild 2023 predictions from newspapers published in 1923

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Jan 4, 2023 8:00 AM EST

Who knew the concept of curly-haired men would cause such a stir a century ago?! Researcher and professor Paul Fairie gathered these bizarre and fascinating newspaper excerpts from 1923 about what life would be like in 2023. In some ways, these predictions were far-fetched, but in others, they were, well, eerily accurate. Keep scrolling below for these century-old predictions and for some of the best comments on Twitter. For more, take a look at the best dating app fails of last year, and comment below what you think life will be like in 2123!

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    Font - Paul Fairie @paulisci A List of Predictions Made in 1923 About 2023 12:08 PM Jan 1, 2023 9.2M Views 11.4K Retweets 1,048 Quote Tweets 58.1K Likes
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    No More Hard Work?! We Wish!

    Font - Paul Fairie Replying to @paulisci The work day will be four hours long @paulisci Jan 1 No More Hard Work by 2023! R. CHARLES P. STEIN- DMETZ, the electrical expert, believes that the time is coming when there will be no long drudgery and that people will toil not more than four hours a day, owing to the work of electricity. He visualizes an amazing trans- formation in life in 2023. Every city will be a "spotless town." That To be the work of electricity, also. ALT ₁1.9M 162 1 2,809 23.7K
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    "We Should Worry" LOL

    Rectangle - Paul Fairie @paulisci . Jan 1 Women will blacken their teeth and shave their heads WS SHOULD WORRY. Good night! It is now predicted that by the year 2023-only a mere little stretch of a cen- tury ahead-women will probably be shaving their heads! And the men will be wearing curls. Also the maidens may pronounce it the height of style in personal primping to blacken. their teeth. Won't we be pretty?-Savannah WS. ALT 1.3M 73 t 645 11.2K ↑
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    Is Radio Even a Thing Still?

    Rectangle - Paul Fairie @paulisci Jan 1 Radio will replace gasoline Minneapolis Journal: It is an at- tractive prophecy that Glenn Curtiss, the airplane authority, gives of air- flight. He predicts that by the year 2023 gasoline as a motive power will have been replaced by radio, and that the skies will be filled with myriad ALT ft sailing over well-defined routes. ₁1.2M 36 t 240 7,481 ↑
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    If Only All People Were Beautiful...

    Rectangle - Paul Fairie @paulisci . Jan 1 All people will be beautiful Fewer Doctors and Present Diseases Unknown; All People Beautiful Beauty contests will be unnecessary as there will be so many beautiful people that it wil be almost impos- sible to select winners. The same ALT apply to baby contests. ₁1.2M 59 t 563 9,631 ↑
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    People Do Live Longer At Least

    Rectangle - Paul Fairie @paulisci Life expectancy will be 100 years : 3 the average life increased to 100 y I cases it could be erhaps 200 years. 12:22 PM Jan 1, 2023
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    Ok, Swing and a Miss!

    Rectangle - Paul Fairie @paulisci Jan 1 Life expectancy will be 300 years cientist says a century the average length of h Ill be 300 years. Quite a ch f today have been living about once a month. ALT 1M 13 1 172 6,205 ↑
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    This One Has Us Cackling

    Font - Paul Fairie Men will curl their hair @paulisci Jan 1 CURLS FOR MEN BY 2023 PREDICTS ANTHROPOLOGIST Bases His Statement on Trend of Masculine and ALT Feminine Styles. 1.6M 85 t641 8,890 ...
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    Not Wrong!

    Product - Paul Fairie @paulisci Jan 1 The US will have a population of 300 million pulation the year will n the the ₁1M th 2023, imply an drainage ( irrigation of 1 340 89 of ... 9,561
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    Also Not Terribly Far Off!

    Rectangle - Paul Fairie @paulisci Jan 1 Newspapers will have been out of business for 50 years In reading a forecast of 2023 wher many varieties of aircraft are flying thru the heavens, we do not begin the day by reading the world's news, but by listening to it for the newspaper has gone out of business more thar a century before. We touch a ALT ₁889.1K 36 279 : 6,265
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    Not Quite Telepathic Yet

    Font - Paul Fairie @paulisci Jan 1 War will be wireless and we might have telepathy Professor Forecasts Wireless Wonders. "How we shall fight in A.D. 2023" is the subject of a contribution by I'rofessor A. M. Low to the September "Nine- teenth Century and After." The professor dwells on latest scientific war terrors, and refers to an invention of his own-jets of water highly charged with electricity- which will render cavalry obsolete. "The war of 2023," he proceeds, "will naturally be a wireles
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    Be Right Back! Picking My Jaw Up From the Floor

    Rectangle - Paul Fairie @paulisci Jan 1 People will communicate using watch-size radio telephones there'll be no mail between New sco. Pittsburgh and London concer king films, orders from merchants ile-an-hour freighters will make de re sunset. Watch-size radio telep body in communication with the e ALT ₁887.6K 103 1840 14.3K
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    Photograph - Hail T Soto Replying to @Tori_Bedford and @paulisci How'd they know wow НННННН HAHAAAAAA @PrellersBurner. Jan 2
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    Facial expression - ChrisB @Chriswb71. Jan 1 Replying to @paulisci Curly hair came true! The apocalypse was nigh! METAL EDGE HARD ROCK'S NO. 1 PHOTO MAGAZINE SEPT. $2.25 $275 Can BOBBY DALL RICK SAVAGE DUFF MCKAGAN MICHAEL LARGIE Liwath GREAT WHITE SKID ROW Rockin' ROAD STORIES 13369 Kickin COLOR PHOTOS - TVLIFE WPS 33697 SPECIAL SECTION! METAL'S BASS ACES Billy Sheehan Tom Hamilton James Lomenzo Jerry Dixon Gene Simmons Steve Harris Frank Bello John Leven Jason Newsted Tim Gaines & more HOT INT
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    Font - evensmallersnoot @verysmallsnoot Replying to @paulisci I wish my great grandma could see me right now, knitting a gift for a friend while a silly little robot vacuums my house. 8:30 PM Jan 1, 2023 128.4K Views 72 Retweets 5,020 Likes
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    Font - Mel @melitoninnn Replying to @paulisci This goes to show that in 2123 everything will be the same 3:06 PM Jan 1, 2023 20.4K Views 3 Retweets 110 Likes
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