I predict that sometime in the future, mankind will be able to move about in carriages that have no horses to pull them, and there will be great tubes of metal that will fly with the wings of birds, with many hundreds of people sitting in chairs inside them.
People will be able to speak into small boxes that will magically carry the sound of their voice as much as half a world away, or even to the moon, and it will come out another box sounding as if the person were standing next to them.
Many people will be able to read, and information of the ages will be stored in glass globes within cabinets of strange wood-like material. It will be dispensed from a flickering, glowing ether, and all of these cabinets will be connected together magically, like the web of a spider, or a fisherman's net....................