Paleofuture features "If Today Were 1965!" -- a 1955 publication of the Reading Automobile Club Magazine, published a year before the Federal Freeway Highway Act. It's an interesting mix of humility and hubris, prescience and silliness, and is as sobering a memento mori for anyone thinking of getting into the prediction game as you could want.
Says Boing Boing. From the awesome Paleofuture (amazing archives here), a record of the ways we imagined the future at time T-n.
Prediction is of course a mug's game. You will be wrong more often than you are right. When you are right it'll most likely less be down to talent than brute dumb luck. What's interesting is what happens when the act of projection makes you see something in a different way.
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