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Occasionally I see projections of the year 2000 that were written at the turn of the twentieth century. What did projections of the future look like before the Industrial Revolution?

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I am Vilém Slavata, one of the men attacked in the Defenestration of Prague. The year is now 1645. Am I able to recognize the Thirty Years' War now as a continuation of the conflicts of 1618, or do they appear to be entirely separate?

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Occasionally I see projections of the year 2000 that were written at the turn of the twentieth century. What did projections of the future look like before the Industrial Revolution?	151
I am Vilém Slavata, one of the men attacked in the Defenestration of Prague. The year is now 1645. Am I able to recognize the Thirty Years' War now as a continuation of the conflicts of 1618, or do they appear to be entirely separate?	26