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Future Schlock

ONLY ONE FORECAST IS A CINCH: PEOPLE WILL KEEP ON PREDICTING

SPECIAL SECTION

1,000 Years at a Glance (Looking Back)

FROM THE INVENTION OF GUNPOWDER TO THE SECOND RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, HERE ARE THE EVENTS, INVENTIONS AND POLITICAL MOVEMENTS, THE CONFLICTS, HEROES AND VILLAINS, THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD DURING THE PAST MIL

A Cosmic Moment (The Great Event)

THE MILLENNIUM REPRESENTS THE RITUAL DEATH AND REBIRTH OF HISTORY, ONE THOUSAND-YEAR EPOCH YIELDING TO ANOTHER

Dream Machines (The Century Ahead)

TECHNOLOGY WATCHERS FORESEE A WORLD FILLED WITH MULTISENSUAL MEDIA, SMART ROADS AND ROBOTS THAT ARE ALMOST ALIVE

Fall Season, 2042 (The Century Ahead)

TODAY'S FASHION LEADERS SHOW WHAT THE STYLESETTERS OF THE FUTURE WILL WEAR

Great Goals (The Century Ahead)

WHAT SHOULD HUMANKIND AIM TO ACCOMPLISH IN THE COMING DECADES?

How The World Will Look in 50 Years (The Century Ahead)

IN THE COMING ECONOMIC STRUGGLES, JAPAN WILL WEAKEN, EUROPE WILL TRIUMPH, AND THE U.S. WILL SWALLOW SOME BITTER CURES

Is Anybody Out There? (The Next 1,000 Years)

AFTER A FALSE DAWN IN THE 20TH CENTURY, THE NEW SPACE AGE COULD BRING EVERYTHING FROM MARS COLONIES TO GALACTIC VOYAGES

Is Progress Obsolete? (The Century Ahead)

A NOTED HISTORIAN ARGUES THAT THE DREAM HAS BECOME FAR TOO EXCLUSIVE

Kingdoms To Come (The Century Ahead)

FAITH WILL THRIVE, BUT WHAT SHAPE WILL RELIGIONS TAKE? A LOOK AT 2092:

Ready Or Not, Here It Comes! (The Century Ahead)

WILL HUMANKIND THRIVE IN THE FAST-PACED, TURBULENT FUTURE? THAT DEPENDS ON HOW WELL WE KNOW OURSELVES RIGHT NOW

The Dating Game (The Century Ahead)

LOVE AND MARRIAGE WILL BE DANGEROUS SPORTS, A HUMORIST PREDICTS

The Frontier Within (The Next 1,000 Years)

BY PLUMBING THE DEEP SECRETS OF THE HUMAN MIND, SCIENTISTS WILL OPEN THE WAY TO CURES, WONDERS -- AND VOYEURISM

The Future Poll (The Great Event)

IN WHICH VARIOUS INTRIGUING QUESTIONS ARE POSED TO THE GREAT AMERICAN PUBLIC

The Millennium of Discovery (Looking Back)

HOW EUROPE EMERGED FROM THE DARK AGES AND DEVELOPED A CIVILIZATION THAT CAME TO DOMINATE THE ENTIRE WORLD

The Nuclear Family Goes Boom! (The Century Ahead)

LOOSELY KNIT CLANS WILL BECOME THE NORM AS SINGLE PARENTS, CONFUSED KIDS AND MORE OLDSTERS COMPETE FOR LOVE AND SUPPORT

Tomorrow's Lesson: Learn or Perish (The Century Ahead)

COMPUTERS WILL ACT AS TUTORS, TEACHERS WILL BE WELL-PAID HEROES, AND DOING YOUR HOMEWORK WILL BE A MATTER OF SURVIVAL

Too Many People (The Century Ahead)

IF THE ENVIRONMENT IS ALREADY THREATENED BY OVERPOPULATION, WHAT WOULD THE WORLD BE LIKE WITH TWICE AS MANY INHABITANTS? YOU WOULDN'T WANT TO BE THERE.

Why, You Don't Look a Day Over 100! (The Century Ahead)

EXTENDED LIFE-SPAN, AN END TO HEART DISEASE, A VACCINE FOR AIDS -- ALL ARE ON THE WAY. A SCENARIO FOR HEALTH CARE IN THE NEXT 100 YEARS:

TO OUR READERS