{
  "name": "The 1900 Ladies’ Home Journal forecast, scored item by item",
  "desc": "The 1900 Ladies’ Home Journal forecast for the year 2000, scored item by item. Compiled by Hoax and Hindsight, 2026-11-06. License of this compilation: CC BY 4.0. Column sources: item_id, paragraph, topic, claim_summary, page, deadline and deadline_basis = John Elfreth Watkins Jr., “What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years,” The Ladies’ Home Journal, vol. 18, no. 1 (December 1900), p. 8, with each claim restated in this site’s words (no original wording is reproduced); observation_test, grade, reason and grade_source = the source named in each row, chiefly Statistical Abstract of the United States: 1999 and 2001 (U.S. Census Bureau) and The World Factbook 2000 (Central Intelligence Agency), applied under the rules at /hindsight-score/. The item list was fixed before grading; previous_grade, revised_on and revision_note record later changes. Facts from sources that do not permit reuse are not included in this file; see the article's Exhibits.",
  "lic": "CC BY 4.0",
  "lic_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "by": "Hoax and Hindsight",
  "url": "https://hoaxandhindsight.com/past-futures/ladies-home-journal-predictions/",
  "from": [
    "The Ladies’ Home Journal, vol. 18, no. 1 (Philadelphia: Curtis Publishing Company, December 1900), p. 8",
    "Statistical Abstract of the United States: 1999 (Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 1999)",
    "Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2001 (Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2001)",
    "Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook 2000",
    "Thomas W. Corbin, Marvels of Scientific Invention (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott; London: Seeley, Service, 1917)",
    "Thomas W. Corbin, The Romance of War Inventions (London: Seeley, Service, 1918)",
    "Harry Vissering, Zeppelin: The Story of a Great Achievement (Chicago, 1922)",
    "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, MMWR 48 (1999) and 49 (2000)",
    "studies listed as Exhibits K to R"
  ],
  "how": "Compiled by Hoax and Hindsight from the data listed",
  "data_by": [
    "John Elfreth Watkins Jr., “What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years,” The Ladies’ Home Journal (December 1900); Statistical Abstract of the United States: 1999 and 2001; The World Factbook 2000; and the other sources named in each row"
  ]
}