'The Future' Is Not Quite As Awesome As People In The 1920s Thought It Would Be

It's almost 2014, and we have some pretty impressive gadgets to show for it: The iPad, electric cars, even a smart watch. But we're still waiting on some predictions from the 1920s, like an atmosphere scientifically kept to the right temperature and suspension-bridge apartment houses that "will gratify the human desire for novelty and romance." Those are just some of the predictions made in this old video from the 1920s, which we first found on Gothamist. It does its best to predict what th...