Write a TL of the Paleofuture, from the Past

This is a bit of a DBWI, but not not via roleplaying so much as perspective.

Before the present is the present, it is future, and people have always attempted to chart the course of that future just as we do with our own. And certainly people had conceptions of what it would be. Of course, given everyone here's experience with AH, we know that history turns on a dime.
If you had asked someone in 1987 who they expected to be the Democratic President in the 90s, they'd say Mario Cuomo. If you asked someone in 1967 if they expected Ronald Reagan (who they'd have a 50/50 chance of mispronouncing 'Regan'), the Goldwaterite Republican, to be president, and be president in the 1980s at the old age he'd be, they'd think you were an idiot. If you asked someone in 1927 what a second Great War would be like, they'd likely describe WW1, but with worse effects. If you told a person of the 1940s about Civil Rights movement, they'd be surprised since they assumed things were fine.

So the deal here is to pick a point in the past, and write a timeline of the (then) future from the point of view of the person of that time. You don't necessarily have to bring it up to present day, but just cover the future for some years from that past.
 
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