He predicted there would be women in Congress ( currently there are 149), the judicial bench (out of 115 justices in its history, only five have been women) and the president’s Cabinet (there are 65 in the Biden Cabinet).Īs remarkable as those achievements are, George wrote, they will not “wipe out the effects on women of 30,000 years of slavery” and it’s “unlikely that women will have achieved equality with men.” As of 2020, according to the Pew Research Group, working women in the United States made an average of 84 cents for every dollar a man earned. George called himself a “cautious feminist,” and correctly guessed that women would follow their own career paths.
George quipped that the “movie actress of 2022 will not only need to know how to smile but also how to talk.” The kinescope was still in development in 1922, but only five years later, “The Jazz Singer” would become the first talkie in theaters.
He predicted that movies, which were still silent, would soon have sound. He also predicted, correctly, that wireless phones would become the norm. His estimate that a flight from the United States to Europe would take eight hours is almost spot on a trip from New York to London takes around seven hours on a standard jet. George predicted that flying would become commonplace. In 1982, the first artificial heart was transplanted, at the University of Utah Hospital. Jonas Salk’s vaccine didn’t start until 1952. A few years later, in 1929, the first polio patient had been saved by an artificial respirator, an “iron lung” the first tests of Dr. Insulin had been discovered only a year before George’s article.
He wrote that he expected the main changes would be brought about by science, pointing to “new rays” that will “illumine” people who “will be much the same.” X-rays were discovered in 1895. In his predictions, George gets a fair amount of things correct. George, made in a 1922 newspaper essay that first ran in the New York Herald - and was published in The Salt Lake Telegram, the afternoon version of The Salt Lake Tribune back then, on May 14, 1922. Some of it matches the predictions a British novelist, W.L. Gatrell has seen a lot since his birth in Utah in 1921. (Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) A copy of Swiss Family Robinson that belonged to Wallace Gattrell, now 101, during his childhood in his home in Farmington, Monday, April 25, 2022.