8 Eerily Accurate Predictions That Came True

4. Nikola Tesla: Feminism, 1924

We all know by now that Telsa envisaged everything from WiFi to mobile phones just after the turn of the 20th century, but he also had a few suspicions about the future of the social landscape. In 1924, in the midst of the fight to give women the vote, Tesla saw a world in which women would fight for their place in intellectual, sporting, political, and business circles, stating that:

...the average woman will be as well educated as the average man, and then better educated, for the dormant faculties of her brain will be stimulated to an activity that will be all the more intense and powerful because of centuries of repose. Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.

Before you get too carried away with feminism fuzzies, Tesla actually saw this as a great tragedy.

The acquisition of new fields of endeavor by women, their gradual usurpation of leadership, will dull and finally dissipate feminine sensibilities, will choke the maternal instinct, so that marriage and motherhood may become abhorrent and human civilization draw closer and closer to the perfect civilization of the bee.

Nevertheless, regardless of his vaguely MRA position, his predictions were spookily accurate.