Olde Tyme Predictions

Several bloggers are citing this - a Ladies Home Journal article from 1900 making some bold predictions for the year 2000.

Here's one of my favorites:

Prediction #16: There will be No C, X or Q in our every-day alphabet. They will be abandoned because unnecessary. Spelling by sound will have been adopted, first by the newspapers. English will be a language of condensed words expressing condensed ideas, and will be more extensively spoken than any other. Russian will rank second.

Condensed words ?? Hmm - text messaging?