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What my grand mother, mother and me thought 2000 was going to be like in 1990.

"The world will seem smaller because there will be more traveling. We will be buying and selling to different countries. Computers will make our life easier and computers will make us able to talk to other countries. Trains planes and automobiles will be faster. There will be cures for AIDs and cancer and other harmful diseases. There will be more fast food, microwave foods and tv dinners,"

Grandma

"There will be world peace and we will need that help for cooperating in making the world turn. We will get more time off work and families will be much closer. The population will have more people in their 50's and 60's. We won't have to leave home to shop. There will be different ways to get around like subways and there will be another airport in Minneapolis,"

Mom

"In ten years from now I will be in school getting my masters degree. I'll be living in an apartment in Minnesota. I'll travel a lot to different countries and islands. In ten years from now astronauts will be on Mars or some other planet, and the environment will be a big problem. There'll probably have a pocket computer,"

Me

Wisdom wins here. Mom knows her shopping. I do not know myself or NASA. I wish I was traveling, to different countries or islands, for that matter. I wonder what islands I had in mind.