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As pointed out in the first hour of the 2014 Annual Meeting of Jehovah's Witnesses, the April 26, 1922 issue of The Golden Age magazine had a remarkable prediction of the future that has proven to be "spot on." Read it for yourself here: This is the second page of the article "The Gift of Speech" by H. E. Coffey, which appeared on pages 462-3. Today we would immediately identify this prediction with the smartphone, where we can indeed receive news from various parts of the earth and communicate at will with private individuals wherever they may be. I don't know how much coffee Mr. Coffey drank before writing this, assuming he did drink that caffeinated beverage, but it is absolutely amazing how his technological prediction was so farsighted and accurate. May his closing statement about the future also find the same realization! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Humor: What's especially amazing is how specific the prediction was, down to the actual name of the first popular smartphone! THE iPHONE! (Please appreciate that this is just a humorous coincidence.) In case you were wondering, here is page 462 of "The Gift of Speech." The entire magazine is free on the Internet in PDF. Introductory graphic from the website Research Applications: The Golden Age was published by Jehovah's Witnesses, and is now called Awake!.