I remember back in the 1960s reading in Popular Mechanics magazine predictions for the year 2000. They said that by 2000 every home would be powered by a small nuclear reactor in the back yard. We would all be zipping around with our own, personal jet pack strapped to our back. One thing they did get right was their prediction that TVs would no longer be a big, square box. Rather, it would be something thin we could hang on the wall like a painting.

Back in the 1970s, CBC Radio interviewed Isaac Asimov. The interviewer asked him if anything he had ever imagined in one of his science fiction novels had ever become a reality. He replied that the characters in one of his books had pocket caculators. But the story had been set in the 28th century.

In the early days of Quirks and Quarks (hosted by David Suzuli) they did a story about an unusual, new illness that was afflicting gay men. The Dr. he interviewed was confident that they would figure it out soon and take care of it. It came to be called AIDS. Today it is a manageable disease, but it killed a lot of people