Girl's 1969 essay on the future makes eerily accurate prediction about the present day
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dailystar.co.uklockdown life.Some of her other predictions – such as a complete meal replacement that comes in the form of a stick of chewing-gum – are yet to come about, but there’s no reason to assume that we won’t one day see them.The portrait of life in the future, which was supposed to outline the technology of the “far off year” of 1980, was discovered by upholsterer Peter Beckerton while he was refurbishing an old sofa for a client.Dated February 23, 1969, the essay starts with the girl imagining her future husband coming home from work.With slightly imperfect spelling, she writes: “’Hello dear,’ he said to me. ‘I’ve just got to ring up my friend on the telephone’.“’Well you’d better tidy yourself up a bit,’ I said.“In 1969 the telephone was a.
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