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Back From The Future: 1995's predictions of 2025 life
In 1995 three brave prognosticators set out to predict life in the 2020s. How did that work out for them?
1995: Steve Fossett became the first person to cross the Pacific Ocean in a balloon, OJ Simpson was acquitted of double murder and Coolio was living in a Gangsta's Paradise. The authors can probably be forgiven for not predicting that in the middle of the 2020s so many people would be spending their days mindlessly scrolling snippets of amusing, inane or downright inflammatory content from their fellow citizens. And while it's always been the case that untraceable cash has been the preferred payment system of criminals, in recent years electronic money in the form of cryptocurrencies has flourished in popularity for nefarious transactions.
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