My elementary school included a class that put a time capsule together during the 1968-1969 school year, with pupil predictions of the year 2001. In the year 2001, the time capsule was opened up. We were quite concerned about air pollution and, wouldn't you know, running out of petroleum, and both turned out to be less of a problem than we anticipated. I expected more progress in the United States in "race" relations than there actually has been, but it is a fact that the United States is experiencing an ongoing reduction of "race" consciousness that is hard to imagine to people who remember the days of legal segregation by state law.
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/14635780-post3.html
I was interested to see that another page on the site hosting the submitted article has a description of the late L. Ron Hubbard
http://www.writersofthefuture.com/lrhbio
that perhaps needs some fact-checking.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Ron_Hubbard
http://www.villagevoice.com/related/to/L.+Ron+Hubbard/
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/07/25/bay-area-great-g...