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I Did Some Research Once On The Way People In The Past Imagined The Year 2000. They Tended To Picture The Things They Already Had Getting More Sophisticated - Flying Cars, Self-cleaning Windows. And The Folks In The Early 1900s Had A Wildly Optimistic Estimate Of The Future Of Pneumatic Tubes.

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I Did Some Research Once On The

Gail Collins

I Did Some Research Once On The Way People In The Past Imagined The Year 2000. They Tended To Picture The Things They Already Had Getting More Sophisticated - Flying Cars, Self-cleaning Windows. And The Folks In The Early 1900s Had A Wildly Optimistic Estimate Of The Future Of Pneumatic Tubes.

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