Human feet become one big toe, robot therapists, and Amazon women: 20 Weird predictions for 2020

The human foot will evolve into one big toe In a 1911 lecture on heredity delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Richard Clement Lucas predicted that the "useless outer toes" will become used less and less, so that "man might become a one-toed race." There was no mention on what we would do if we stubbed our foot on the couch leg. less The human foot will evolve into one big toe In a 1911 lecture on heredity delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Richard Clement Lucas predicted that the "useless outer toes" will become ... more Photo: Westend61/Getty Images/Westend61 Photo: Westend61/Getty Images/Westend61 Image 1 of / 30 Caption Close Human feet become one big toe, robot therapists, and Amazon women: 20 Weird predictions for 2020 1 / 30 Back to Gallery

We have all joked about having flying cars and rocket backpacks by this time, like the cartoons promised.

It seems the year 2020 was so far out in the future that many prognosticators envisioned major leaps in technology and evolution by now.

So while we deal with the realities of being stuck in traffic and grounded on Earth, take a look at some of the stranger things "experts" predicted we would be enjoying by now.

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