December 16, 2010
What will life be like in 2011?
Henry Ford:
To make an eighty-year forecast may be an interesting exercise, first of the imagination and then of our sense of humility, but its principal interest will probably be for the people eighty years on, who will measure our estimates against the accomplished fact. No doubt the seeds of 1931 were planted and possibly germinating in 1851, but did anyone forecast the harvest? And likewise the seeds of 2011 are with us now, but who discerns them?
Eighty years ago, The New York Times asked a few men of the era what life would be like in 2011. 2091, anyone?
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