Around 1967, grade 8 an essay in English was required on fifty years from the date, would have put us at 2017.
Responses were stunning, flying cars was one mentioned often not such a new thought after all! High rise buildings another with landing portals on roof tops.
Consider we had no TV, reading was our source of information, this lead to many Jules Verne books being the most popular at the time in sci-fi.
Science fiction may become science fact there are no boundaries to human thinking and imagination.
Haha, those flying cars have been promised for a very long time! I can't imagine them being impossible unless they operated themselves. Whenever I see video footage of Dubai or some Asian cities it looks a lot like the future that was being predicted when I was a child in the 1970's. That's not so much the case in America. Speaking of sci-fi, Star Trek has had a pretty decent track record when it comes to predictions.
Some strive toward futuristic looking technological life as mentioned in Star Trek. All could backfire and we end up going backward repeating scorched-earth starting over again.
Predicting which trajectory we end up on, not easy as we sit in an uncomfortable world where people are being failed by current leaders.
Yes, I could have gone down a very dark road with this prompt but chose, instead, to have a little fun with it. The western world is not on a good trajectory right now. I hope we can recover from this malestrom of hate and division against each other and focus on all the things we actually need to to change our situation for the better.
My head spins simply thinking of the illogical way things have panned out over the last few years, a ship sailing without a north star for sure.