British professor Archibald Montgomery Law predicted the invention of the loudspeaker, the mobile phone, and gender-neutral clothing as far back as 1925 - a century ago - and all of his predictions were dismissed as “pure fantasy.”

These predictions included "A Day in the Life of a Future Man," as the London Daily News reported in 1925. The horrors of waking up to the sound of a wireless alarm clock; Communicating via a personal radio (mobile phone) and shopping via escalators.

According to the British newspaper The Guardian, Archibald Law predicted that mobile phones and television would replace newspapers for on-demand information and entertainment. Access global broadcasts with the push of a button; And using secret cameras and eavesdropping devices to catch criminals.

In 1924, Professor Archibald predicted that women would wear trousers like men, and in 1926, he predicted prenatal sex determination, and that not a century would pass until women approached men in intelligence, when they adopted “the physical characteristics of men.”

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Now a doctor in Munich has predicted that women who cut their hair will grow beards over time.

He also predicted the use of "automatic telephones" that would enable the correct number every time, unlike the rotary telephones of the 1920s.

Among the strange concepts that appeared at that time were the invention of new methods of lighting streets with grass (1926), jets of electrically charged water to replace cavalry (1923), and electrical communication between minds (1925).

The massive investment in offshore wind and solar power in recent years appears to be fulfilling another prediction: that “wind and tides will also be used to serve humanity.”

Among other predictions: “Life will become much easier thanks to the use of machines that will do all the heavy and annoying work.”

* Alarm Clock
Archibald Law predicted that the average man would be awakened at the appointed time by a radio alarm clock set to pick up the specific signal at the time he wished to be awakened.” Before the advent of automatic alarms, people were awakened To go to work to the sound of an early morning “knock on the door,” someone tapping on the windows with a long wooden stick. This pattern did not disappear in Britain until the 1940s and 1950s. However, Law’s prediction that the alarm clock would be set to Specific timing was optimistic.

One hundred years after Archibald Law published The Future, some of his predictions were correct, but others, such as his prediction that everyone would wear one-piece synthetic felt suits and hats, were not correct at all.

Researchers from the online genealogy service Findmypast extracted Lo's prediction accounts from its vast digital archive of publicly available historical newspapers and included them in a collection on its website of predictions made by people a century ago for the year 2025.

Archibald Low, born in 1888, was an engineer, research physicist, inventor, and author, and a pioneer in many fields. He invented the first powered drone, worked on the development of television, and was known as the "Father of Radio Guidance Systems" for his work on... Planes, torpedo boats and guided missiles, and it is said that he was subjected to at least two failed assassination attempts by the Germans.