I like these answers because they're from ordinary people writing to a newspaper, not futurologists.
From the downright bizarre...
"Invasion is made impossible by the intellectual, self-acting pyro-aqua vengeance bombs."
... to those that were just a little bit out on the date...
"England will by her very policy of national aggrandisement slowly sink into the condition of a second-rate power (somewhat like Sweden of the present day), and her fall will in the end by [sic] accelerated by those whom she has in former years befriended. In 1988 she will have no weight in the Councils of Europe."
... and the one written in the poetically vague style of Nostradamus :
"An island city containing several rather large gardens. Over it an uncrowned king shall reign, though the tongue of syren shall sway St. Stephen's. The chancellor's hair, uncovered by a wig, shall hang down to the woolsack. Heat shall be drawn from clouds and light from running water. Armies shall meet in the air and vessels glide over land and sea without either wind or steam to drive them. Servants shall neither speak nor see, and yet do their work well. Though Neptune threatens, the lion and eagle shall be bound together with bonds of steel."
https://www.indy100.com/article/victorians-people-future-predictions-1888-1988-england-thread-8704311
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