The author of this article wrote this in a Jan 2020 blog [0]: > Am I a genius prognosticator and futurist? Hardly. I was just a reporter who interviewed a bunc

The author of this article wrote this in a Jan 2020 blog [0]: > Am I a genius prognosticator and futurist? Hardly. I was just a reporter who interviewed a bunch of really smart people. As I recall, when the editors of the magazine hired me to write the story, they already had the title in mind but weren’t 100 percent sure that it would bear fruit. My editor and I drew up a list of scientists the magazine had worked with or had interviewed in the recent past, and set me free to contact as many as I could and ask them how they saw the future shaping up. > At the time I thought some of the predictions were off the wall. The one about cleaning up our digital reputations, for example, seemed nutty to me. ... [0] https://www.josephdagnese.com/blog/2020/1/20/that-time-i-predicted-the-future-and-cnn-noticed https://www.josephdagnese.com/blog/2020/1/20/that-time-i-pre...