TL;DR - By 2012 we'll have moon bases and missions to Mars if AIDS doesn't wipe us out first. They really had high hopes for space exploration. Shame that neve

TL;DR - By 2012 we'll have moon bases and missions to Mars if AIDS doesn't wipe us out first. They really had high hopes for space exploration. Shame that never happened. :( EDIT: Oh this was a good one (thankfully not at all accurate): "TIM POWERS: Probate and copyright law will be entirely restructured by 2012 because people will be frozen at death, and there will be electronic means of consulting them. Many attorneys will specialize in advocacy for the dead."