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Article: L.A. in the year 2019.(20 Years that Changed Los Angeles)(includes related articles on what people think city will be like in 2019 and the leaders who will be prominent then)(Los Angeles, CA)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- July 19, 1999
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Futurists Have a Bad Track Record - Just Look at Vance Packard's Predictions in 1979 - But That Won't Stop Us From Forecasting What the City Will Look Like 20 Years From Now
Twenty years from now, Angelenos will own flying cars, live in domed communities with purified air, and be legally required to wear suntan lotion.
Just kidding.
Futurist predictions often come off looking ridiculous under the cold light of the present day. They tend to be overly dramatic in some areas (where are those flying cars that prognosticators in the 1950s said would be here by now?) or glaring in their oversight in others. (If forecasters had been more accurate, ...