Predictions of the Year 2000 from The Ladies Home Journal of December 1900

[David Morris]

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Prediction #22: Store Purchases by Tube. Pneumatic tubes, instead of
store wagons, will deliver packages and bundles. These tubes will
collect, deliver and transport mail over certain distances, perhaps
for hundreds of miles. They will at first connect with the private
houses of the wealthy; then with all homes. Great business
establishments will extend them to stations, similar to our branch
post-offices of today, whence fast automobile vehicles will distribute
purchases from house to house.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Stevens

The Internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a
big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand those
tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message
in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts
into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of
material.

Sen. Ted Stevens (R) Alaska