1987 Time Capsule Predictions by Sci-Fi Writers About 2012 
2037<p>Some promising technologies will still be struggling along in 2037. Others have
disappeared or been replaced completely. No matter how miraculous and marvelous
the advances that have happened though, society will have managed to consider
them mundane and probably inevitable. I don't know what quantum computers and
machine learning will have allowed by 2037- (better weather prediction? deep
mathematical truths?), but I suspect that the things people think about the
most, like how to have meaningful relationships and fulfilling work, will have
only been minimally affected. On the other hand, I predict that some people
thinking about those things now will have found, individually, exactly what
they were looking for.<p>Each generation will be less mature (at least until it reaches the same age as
the last). Each new generation (there will have been a couple by 2037) will,
despite its immaturity, regressiveness, and destructiveness, manage to yield
forth individuals who inspire and transform, who rise above petty concerns and
a world brimming with distraction and reveal something new about the capacity
of mankind.<p>In short, the fundamental struggle will continue between technology that exalts
our knowledge and capacity, and human nature that debases and waste them.<p>Existential threats to mankind will still occasionally surface. The threat of
genocide, tyrants who oppress and reign in terror, the Earth groaning under its
abuse as we attempt to listen better, to act better. But, as always there will be
pockets of peace and prosperity where others can sit and take a moment to write
an entry for 2062.