9 Seriously Bizarre "Future Predictions" From The 1900s

5. We'd Stop Eating "Food" Altogether

By 1953, some people were quite clearly over the whole "food" thing.

In his book, The Road To Abundance, Jacob Rosin imagines a world in which we have done away with all of that dirty, primitive "food" stuff and subsist purely on lab-made mixtures of chemicals.

It is therefore high time to remove the cloak of holiness from natural foods, and see them as what they are: a poorly assorted mixture of chemicals containing a large amount of indigestible materials, and a certain proportion of materials injurious to our health. This mixture has been, unfortunately, indispensable for our nutrition, since we have been unable up to now to obtain the chemicals required by our organism in a form entirely digestible and devoid of poison.

Sounds delicious.

If we were to pop Rosin into a time machine and bring him into the 21st century, he would be presumably horrified by our supermarkets filled with all of that nasty "fresh, organic produce".

That said, there are some these days who would still champion the "food pill" vibe of the 50s futurists. A UK company has recently developed Huel, a nutritionally complete powder that you can whip up into a nice, flavourless smoothie and get the whole chore of eating over in one, big gulp.