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Some of the many things predicted about the year 2010 by futurists in 1983:

• Ordinary households “would enjoy all kinds of information thanks to the development of digital communications networks.”
• “The three most pernicious adult diseases — cancer, cerebral apoplexy and heart ailments — would be conquered.”
• Orbiting factories and experimental laboratories would float “around in space, producing new pharmaceuticals, alloys and other substances, taking full advantage of the absence of gravity.”
• Satellites would generate power from solar rays to be used on earth.
• “[T]he emphasis of the markets will have moved from supply-push to demand-pull: the customer really will be king and he will expect his every little whim to be catered for.”
• “Households will join together to install expensive leisure equipment that they could not afford individually… and communications centers capable of displaying 3-D images.”

Anyone taking bets for 2050? Still holding out for that jetpack.

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