Now that it's over, here are some selections from "The Long Boom: A History of the Future, 1980–2020" by @peteleyden and @peterschwartz2 from @wired's July 1997 issue (thread)

"Remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future." - The Amazing Criswell

From "The Long Boom: A History of the Future, 1980–2020" by @peteleyden and @peterschwartz2 in @wired's July 1997 issue

More from "The Long Boom: A History of the Future, 1980–2020" by @peteleyden and @peterschwartz2 from @wired's July 1997 issue

Some of the few relatively prescient parts of "The Long Boom: A History of the Future, 1980–2020" by @peteleyden and @peterschwartz2 from @wired's July 1997 issue

Some of my favorite paragraphs from "The Long Boom: A History of the Future, 1980–2020" by @peteleyden and @peterschwartz2 in @wired's July 1997 issue: how we solved that pesky economy

Not everything they wrote was complete BS; the HGP was completed in 2003, rather than 2001. And Clinton did doom American healthcare to be forever employer-based in 1994. GMOs and bioinformatics came along relatively on schedule as well...

The Long Boom authors were more correct about transistor counts in CPUs than about the impact technology would have on society, which is usually the case with futurists. Their whole job is to sell technological advances as unidrectional progress

I dunno, the air and water seem to be awfully clean of late in major industrial centers. It just shows how much progress we've made!

And we did it all thanks to the invaluable partnership between business and industry, working together to make cleaner skies and ecologically responsible means of transportation! (from "The Long Boom: A History of the Future, 1980–2020" in @wired)

Something something globalization is good, Russian democracy is ascendant, etc etc (from "The Long Boom: A History of the Future, 1980–2020" in @wired)

Sure, anyone could call China's economic rise in 1997, but it takes special talent to get most of the details wrong. Right now China is exporting transportation technology across Asia and into Europe and Africa through the Belt and Road project

South and east Asia and the Pacific continue to be hotspots for global poverty, and people there are now facing additional threats from climate change and chronic food shortages https://www.unescap.org/blog/why-cant-dynamic-asia-pacific-beat-poverty

Ah yes, the genius of neoliberalism which propelled Europe toward its inexorable destiny (from "The Long Boom: A History of the Future, 1980–2020" in @wired)

*slaps hood of Russia's socio-economic order* this baby can hold so much prikhvatizatsiya, by 2005 you're gonna have the basic underpinnings of a solid economy (from @wired's 1997 piece "The Long Boom: A History of the Future, 1980-2020")

Trade deals were a feature, not a bug, you see. We can fuel the global economy with "openness" and "juicing" because trade always means jobs etc etc (from @wired's 1997 piece "The Long Boom: A History of the Future, 1980-2020")