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Re:1987 Time Capsule Predictions by Sci-Fi Writers About 2012 by tokenadult on Thursday July 26, 2012 @09:10PM (#4299514)
My elementary school included a class that put a time capsule together during the 1968-1969 school year, with pupil predictions of the year 2001. In the year 2001, the time capsule was opened up. We were quite concerned about air pollution and, wouldn't you know, running out of petroleum, and both turned out to be less of a problem than we anticipated. I expected more progress in the United States in "race" relations than there actually has been, but it is a fact that the United States is experiencing an ongoing reduction of "race" consciousness that is hard to imagine to people who remember the days of legal segregation by state law.

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/14635780-post3.html

I was interested to see that another page on the site hosting the submitted article has a description of the late L. Ron Hubbard

http://www.writersofthefuture.com/lrhbio

that perhaps needs some fact-checking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Ron_Hubbard

http://www.villagevoice.com/related/to/L.+Ron+Hubbard/

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/07/25/bay-area-great-g...

Re:1987 Time Capsule Predictions by Sci-Fi Writers About 2012 by waterlesscloud on Thursday July 26, 2012 @09:35PM (#4299582)
Writers Of The Future is a Hubbard thing. He originated it. So it's not surprising it has a more favorable view of him than other sources...
Re:1987 Time Capsule Predictions by Sci-Fi Writers About 2012 by runn1ng on Friday July 27, 2012 @01:58AM (#4300201)
The site looks like 100% Scientóogy propaganda. I know this may sound paranoic, but you can really recognize it by the home page and the way it's written.
Re:1987 Time Capsule Predictions by Sci-Fi Writers About 2012 by fferen on Friday July 27, 2012 @01:03PM (#4302371)
I know, right? Reminds me of this: http://www.thrivemovement.com/
Re:1987 Time Capsule Predictions by Sci-Fi Writers About 2012 by fluxon on Friday July 27, 2012 @09:51AM (#4301368)
+1
Re:1987 Time Capsule Predictions by Sci-Fi Writers About 2012 by mangala on Friday July 27, 2012 @08:31AM (#4301029)
Race relations are progressing but by no means fixed, but I'm sure you'd get quite the surprised reaction if you went back and told people the president was black.
Re:1987 Time Capsule Predictions by Sci-Fi Writers About 2012 by jtolle on Friday July 27, 2012 @12:16AM (#4299995)
A round of applause for the Clean Air Act!