Predictions for the year 2000 from 1900

I want to communicate with the dead so I can correct some of these dummies... but others are... well... dead-on.

No Mosquitoes nor Flies. Insect screens will be unnecessary.

I wish!

Telephones Around the World. Wireless telephone and telegraph circuits will span the world. A husband in the middle of the Atlantic will be able to converse with his wife sitting in her boudoir in Chicago. We will be able to telephone to China quite as readily as we now talk from New York to Brooklyn.

Pretty much. (New York to Brooklyn?)