That's because Kaempffert imagined furniture would be made of synthetic fabric or waterproof plastic. "After the water has run down a drain in the middle of the floor (later concealed by a rug of synthetic fiber)," all you'd have to do is "turn on a blast of hot air" to dry everything.

这是因为坎普费特想象中的家具是由合成纤维或防水塑料制成的。“当水从地板中间的排水管里流出后（随后会被合成纤维地毯遮盖住）”，你所要做的就是“打开暖风”把室内吹干。

5 We'll eat candy made of underwear.

吃内衣做的糖果

In the same Popular Mechanics article, Kaempffert predicted that all food would be delivered to our homes in the form of frozen bricks by the 21st century. "Cooking as an art is only a memory in the minds of old people," he wrote. "A few die-hards still broil a chicken or roast a leg of lamb, but the experts have developed ways of deep-freezing partially baked cuts of meat." And, thanks to advances in culinary technology, Kaempffert predicted it would even be possible to take ordinary objects like old table linens and "rayon underwear" and bring them to "chemical factories to be converted into candy." No thanks!

在同一篇《大众机械》的文章中，坎普费特预测，到21世纪，所有的食物都将以冻冰块的形式送到我们的家中。他写道：“烹饪作为一门艺术，只是老年人的一种记忆。一些顽固分子仍在烤鸡或烤羊腿，但专家们已经发明了将部分烤制的肉块深度冷冻的方法。”坎普费特预测，由于烹饪技术的进步，人们甚至可以把旧桌布和“人造丝内衣”等普通物品带到“化工厂进行加工，改造成糖果”。还是算了吧！

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