All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors. David R. Brower
Twenty-five years from now...Computers will be exactly like telephones. They are probably going to be communicating all the time ... I would hope that by the year 2000 there is this big [networking] infrastructure, giving us arbitrary bandwidth on a pay-as-you-go basis. Gordon Bell
Extrapolating from the statistical growth of the legal profession, by the year 2035 every single person in the United States will be a lawyer, including newborn infants. Michael Crichton
In the 1950s, academics forecast that as a result of new technology, by the year 2000 we could have a twenty-hour workweek. Alan Lightman
By the year 2000, Oregon will be collapsed and the city of Rajneesh Puram will be existing. Ma Anand Sheela
By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another. Nicholas Negroponte