Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
Trying to predict what life will be like in the future is tricky business. Looking back at predictions of the past is always fun. Sometimes they get pretty close, but usually, spectacularly wrong.
Still, humans just can't seem to resist looking into the crystal ball.
25 years ago today, the Los Angeles Times magazine published a special edition focused on life in the faraway year of 2013. In a lot of ways, it was surprisingly on target, though they didn't predict that the LA Times magazine would cease to exist.
Writer Dashiell Bennett dug up the old issue, and published a kind of scorecard for the Atlantic.