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The Media’s Cracked Crystal Ball: What Journalists Said We’d Find in 2015
In the 1980s and ’90s, journalists passed along expert predictions of the world as it would be in 2015. Now that the New Year has finally arrived, it might be fun to recall some of those forecasts. Keep these in mind as you hear sages confidently predict what we’ll find 20 or 30 years from now: ■ Huge surpluses for the U.S. government: In a front-page story for the April 2, 1988 New York Times, correspondent Peter Kilborn relayed fears that by 2015 the government would be taking in far more money than it could spend:…Read More