ACCURATE PREDICTIONS MADE BY UNKNOWN PEOPLE

Robert Boyle made a prediction in 1660 which he scribled in a paper.

'In the future diseases will be treated from distance. Human organs will be transplanted from one person to another.'

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Ezra Stiles the then president of Yale University made a prediction in 1783 that American population would reach 300 million in 200 years. On 200th year on the same day US population touched 300 million.

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An American civil engineer, John Elfreth Watkins made predictions in 1900 about the world in 2000.

Watkins wrote on a paper. " These prophecies will seem strange, almost impossible ..." He continued, "Photographs will be telegraphed from any distance. If there be a battle in China a hundred years hence, snapshots of its most striking events will be published in the newspaper an hour later........ Photographs will reproduce all of nature's colours."

(Indebted to Tom Geoghegan in BBC News Magazine on 11th January 2012)

K V George