Revisiting Some Wacky 2015 Prophecies
Much crazier than Back to the Future's vision of a Chicago Cubs World Series victory.
No matter how bad you think things recently got on social media with #TheDress, it could be much worse. If a futuristic novel published in 1906 had turned out to be correct, we would all today – from the safety of fortified bunkers – be hashtagging Team #PaintedPeople, #HousePeople or #Doomsmen.
The Doomsman was the title of the novel, by [William Gilbert] Van Tassel Sutphen. It’s recently been re-issued and per a New Yorker piece, was favorably reviewed in the New York Times that original year.
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