Jack London predicted 2013 would be the beginning of the "Scarlet Plague" that kills most of the world

Ebola

Didn't ebola start this year? If yes, he guessed it wrong.

This book is amazing. Its published in 1912 but predicted the exact numbers of world population in 2013, which it said world population reached 8 billion. It also accurately predicted the population of NY city of 2013. Then it says the plague started that year and described the sympton of the plague. Which is the exact same as Ebola. At the end the book says that population will shrink so much that one can encounter wild bears and lions right in the middle of san francisco downtown. People who survived form tribes.

Oh yeah actually the most amazing prediction in this book is that there was a presidential election in 2012. Now how did he know that? We had presidents that resigned and presidents that died in office. How did he know about 2012 election?

There are elections every 4 years.


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there was a link around to the online book?

a very good read considering when it was written


we have in many ways surpassed what he thought 2012 2013
would be like but the Ebola virus sounds an awfull lot like the scarlet plague.

and BTW im pretty sure he was a member of the bohemian grove


all sorts of good conspiracy stuff here

In Jack London’s post-apocalyptic novella, The Scarlet Plague (1912), humankind is almost completely wiped out by a virulent, ebola-like disease in the summer of 2013. James Howard Smith, an English literature professor at the University of California, Berkeley, is the last man alive who still remembers that summer. The story is told in flashback, to Smith’s grandsons.

It’s always interesting to compare how writers imagine their future to how our present actually turned out. Of course, London is way off on the technology — airships and dirigibles filled the air in the pre-plague days, going a whopping 200 miles/hour (the cruising speed of a Boeing 747 is more like 570 miles/hr). Aerospace engineers were busy trying to break the 300 mph barrier.

He did make a pretty good projection of the world population — 8 billion people by his fictional 2010 census, compared to 7.1 billion in real-life 2013. His demographics were far more concentrated — 4 million people in the city of San Francisco (about 825,000 in reality; 8.4 million in the greater Bay Area); 17 million in New York City (8.3 million in reality), 7 million in San Leandro (San Leandro? In reality it’s a modest sized city of about 87,000). But in London’s world (unlike ours), the population fell off drastically once you got east of the Oakland Hills — his Livermore is isolated farmland. I guess London didn’t anticipate modern suburban sprawl.

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Are you for real??

I had prophetic dreams about world population in 2060. But the dream showed that population will reduce a lot but not due to plague but due to Chinese in full dictatorship of the whole world and they forced their 0 child policy on the whole world. So in the future you will rarely see kids.