Back From The Future: 1995's predictions of 2025 life

In 1995 three brave prognosticators set out to predict life in the 2020s. How did that work out for them? 1995: Steve Fossett became the first person to cross the Pacific Ocean in a balloon, OJ Simpson was acquitted of double murder and Coolio was living in a Gangsta's Paradise. The internet was something a mere 20 million people were using and most of them were doing so to the accompaniment of a screeching dial up modem. But some people were looking to the future. These brave prognosticators reached all the way through thirty years of time into what we now call erm... "now" to predict what life would be like in the mid-2020s. If you're going to predict the future it's usually best to aim for a five to ten year time-frame. This makes your predictions close enough to excite people but far enough away that everyone's forgotten what you predicted by the time it doesn't pan out. But in 1995, Ian Pearson and Peter Cochrane penned an article in the exciting-sounding British Telecommunicati ... Read full article.