Archibald Low published a book in 1922 titled The Future. Courtesy of the Digital Library of India and the Internet Archive, here are some excerpts:
“One of the greatest blessings of television will be to bring the most expensive educational facilities within the reach of all, and the creation of a mental aristocracy. Specialists lecturing at one university or school will have a vast audience, for any number of other schools could be linked up by wireless, enabling the pupils to follow the lecture, both by the spoken word and of the reproduction of diagrams upon the wireless controlled blackboard.”
“Science may place at the disposal of future men forces so great that an entire army or city could be annihilated in a second, and it is little exaggeration to state that if the gifts of science were grossly misused man might entirely disappear from the world.”
“During his dressing and quickly dispatched breakfast snack, a pleasant toned loud speaker will keep [the man of the future] informed of all the world’s happenings, while his television machine will give him glimpses of the events mentioned in the news. By altering the wave length on his directional short wave selective set he will hear just the type of world’s news that interests him at the moment.”
“Birth-control methods will be vastly improved. The discovery of a simple drug which would render persons sterile for a few hours would alter half our civilized life and confer a vast fortune upon the inventor. X-rays will render a man sterile; the period may eventually be controlled or corrected by some other form of electrical emanation.”
“Squadrons of wireless-controlled aeroplanes, or aerial torpedoes, will manoeuvre accurately under the signalled instructions from the base, taking photographs, releasing bombs and disease at will.”
“To-day a young man is ruled by sex; the blending of male and female, (few one hundred per cent. men and women are to be found), will maintain advancement and lead us to a period where thought is not broken by the smell of a beefsteak, a scented woman, or an expensive garter.”
> “Science may place at the disposal of future men forces so great that an entire army or city could be annihilated in a second, and it is little exaggeration to state that if the gifts of science were grossly misused man might entirely disappear from the world.”
For context, in 1913 H.G Wells wrote a novel "The World Set Free" that was essentially about atomic bombs. There was already quite a lot of speculation about the potential of harnessing radioactive elements to make bombs by the 20s.
“One of the greatest blessings of television will be to bring the most expensive educational facilities within the reach of all, and the creation of a mental aristocracy. Specialists lecturing at one university or school will have a vast audience, for any number of other schools could be linked up by wireless, enabling the pupils to follow the lecture, both by the spoken word and of the reproduction of diagrams upon the wireless controlled blackboard.”
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.22805/page/n61...
“Science may place at the disposal of future men forces so great that an entire army or city could be annihilated in a second, and it is little exaggeration to state that if the gifts of science were grossly misused man might entirely disappear from the world.”
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.22805/page/n73...
“During his dressing and quickly dispatched breakfast snack, a pleasant toned loud speaker will keep [the man of the future] informed of all the world’s happenings, while his television machine will give him glimpses of the events mentioned in the news. By altering the wave length on his directional short wave selective set he will hear just the type of world’s news that interests him at the moment.”
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.22805/page/n11...
“Birth-control methods will be vastly improved. The discovery of a simple drug which would render persons sterile for a few hours would alter half our civilized life and confer a vast fortune upon the inventor. X-rays will render a man sterile; the period may eventually be controlled or corrected by some other form of electrical emanation.”
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.22805/page/n14...
“Squadrons of wireless-controlled aeroplanes, or aerial torpedoes, will manoeuvre accurately under the signalled instructions from the base, taking photographs, releasing bombs and disease at will.”
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.22805/page/n16...
“To-day a young man is ruled by sex; the blending of male and female, (few one hundred per cent. men and women are to be found), will maintain advancement and lead us to a period where thought is not broken by the smell of a beefsteak, a scented woman, or an expensive garter.”
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.22805/page/n11...