Practically every citizen will buy more than he buys now. ✓
Buying will be faster. ✓
National distribution will be faster. ✓
Retail selling will be faster. ✓
People buying more than they buy now. ✓
We will be a leisure people. ✓
We will have more time to consume and pay more attention to consuming. ✓
The market will be more sophisticated and more educated. ✓
You may think the above predictions were written at some point in the last 20 years, but they actually came from a list published in the January 1929 issue of System: The Magazine of Business. They were part of an article by film producer Adolph Zuker titled, “Looking Ahead a Decade or Two.” While Zuker’s article wasn’t wrong, the stock market crash a few months later