US Edition‘Deadly New Disease’: 1998 Poll of Americans’ Predictions for Future Were ‘Surprisingly Prescient’
The 1998 Gallup/USA Today poll accurately foresaw key social changes by 2025, including election of a Black president and legal gay marriage, based on 1,055 American respondents.
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People in 1998 Made Frighteningly Accurate Predictions About 2025
In 1998, Bill Clinton was battling impeachment, and James Cameron’s Titanic ruled the box office. In 2025, a twice-impeached president holds office as James Cameron’s excellent Avatar: Fire and Ash rules the box office. The more things change, the more they stay the same. The future, it turns out, is not all that difficult to predict. All you have to do is think about now and extrapolate a little. You’ll probably get more right than wrong unless…
‘Deadly New Disease’: 1998 Poll of Americans’ Predictions for Future Were ‘Surprisingly Prescient’
Photo by U.S. National Archives, No known copyright restrictions A 1998 poll by Gallup and USA Today surveyed Americans for their predictions about the year we’re about to finish, and several of their guesses for what 2025 would bring were “surprisingly prescient,” reported CNN’s Ariel Edwards-Levy. In 1998, wrote Edwards-Levy, “Bill Clinton was facing impeachment proceedings, ‘Titanic’ was cleaning up at the Oscars and most households still had…
In 1998, more than a thousand Americans tried to predict what the world would look like in 2025. They predicted a variety of events, from the discovery of a cure for cancer to the legalization of same-sex marriage to contact with aliens. CNN has now compared their estimates with reality. Similar surveys are now being conducted in the Czech Republic, where they are investigating how people see the less distant future.
A poll taken in 1998 shows uncannily correct results in 2025
A poll from 1998 has resurfaced, showing that Americans were surprisingly accurate when asked to predict what would have happened by 2025. The poll, conducted by Gallup and USA Today, surveyed over 1,000 Americans to predict the country’s future. Interestingly, 1998 marked a very different America. Bill Clinton was facing his impeachment trial, the Titanic was taking Hollywood by storm, and Michael Jordan was leading the Chicago Bulls to victo…
In 1998, Americans were asked by Gallup to imagine what their country would be like in 2025 — and today we can see how close or far they fell from reality.
They predicted the pandemic and same-sex marriage, but missed the cure for cancer and a female president.
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