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2024 – Really?

2024 – Really?

By Amy Patsch

I am old enough to remember the 1964 New York World’s Fair. It was an amazing fair with fabulous exhibits by some of the day’s top manufacturers, and they delighted in showing us what their Research and Development departments were working on. I was not yet in my teens but I was quite impressed by the many futuristic predictions about how we would live in the year 2000. For me, 2000 seemed so far away that I imagined it would be beyond my lifetime.

Those predictions from 1964 were looking 36 years into the future. The exhibits by GE and Bell Telephone gave exciting hope to amazing times. I imagine some of the expectations of those geniuses of the day were on target but the few that I recall have become common only recently.

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