A hundred years ago this month, Thomas Edison—whose 164th birthday is celebrated with a twitchy, sketchy Google doodle Friday—laid out a long series of predictions as to how technology would transform the world.
Writing in Cosmopolitan—then a general-interest magazine—the U.S. inventor was spot on about some things, such as speedy airplanes, but "absolutely wrong" on others, said Paul Israel, director and general editor of the Thomas A. Edison Papers Project at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
Among Edison's misses: that books (pictured, Dublin's Trinity College library) would be made of nickel, which Edison thought would make a cheaper, stronger, and more flexible material than paper.
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