What We Thought This Decade Would Be Like Vs. Reality

Humans Would Colonize The Moon

In 1982, The New York Times took a poll on what futurists thought would happen in the next 20 or so years. While some people predicted that families would have fewer children and people would adopt work coop spaces, others predicted that people would colonize the moon.

Futurist Barbara Hubbard believed that “in 20 years, there is the possibility of a cosmic civilization,” but humans would first have to take their minds “off destruction and concentrate on construction.” In 2018, with world leaders threatening nuclear war on Twitter, it’s safe to say that we’re still in the “destruction” phase and haven’t made any serious moves towards living on the moon. Oh well.