9 Seriously Bizarre "Future Predictions" From The 1900s

2. Everything Would Be Made Of Glass. Everything

You would probably expect the director of marketing for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company to be pretty enthusiastic about glass.

Smith Rairdon, who was just such a man in 1958, took it up a notch and predicted a world in which literally everything was made of glass.

"In the year 2008 a bride will be carried over the threshold of a glass house. Her kitchen may be glass-walled with a glass refrigerator, glass chairs, shelves and cabinets. She'll cook with throwaway glass containers which she plucks from the supermarket shelves, uses as cooking utensils in an electronic oven and then places on a dining table as serving dishes."

He also imagined that this wonder-material would make its way into pretty much every aspect of our lives by incorporating it into our household furnishings and even our clothes.

If you thought your last Christmas jumper was itchy, just be thankful that Mr Rairdon didn't get his way. Fiberglass is not great for sensitive skin.

Then again, the real 2008 was the year in which someone decided to put pockets on shoes, so who's the idiot now?