Writing in 1901, the Akron Daily Democrat predicted the following of the United States one hundred years hence:
Your challenge is to make this a reality. Have the United States stretch from pole to shining pole on March 4, 2001 (one hundred years since McKinley's inaugural) with a POD no earlier than March 4, 1901. Double bonus points if the United States remains a democracy for the entire period, and triple bonus points if the nations join willingly.
Washington, Feb. 11. -- ...the United States, then will have acquired the whole of the western hemisphere attaining a population of 300,000,000; that the President will be from Montreal, U.S.A., will have forty cabinet members to appoint; that the Senate will consist of 300 members and the House 800, and that Washington on that day will entertain 3,000,000 visitors, most of whom view the inaugural parade from airships...
Your challenge is to make this a reality. Have the United States stretch from pole to shining pole on March 4, 2001 (one hundred years since McKinley's inaugural) with a POD no earlier than March 4, 1901. Double bonus points if the United States remains a democracy for the entire period, and triple bonus points if the nations join willingly.