In a turn-of-the-millennium article in Discover magazine, Brad Lemley offered “20 Things That Won’t Change” by the year 2020, including:
Baseball. Players will get bigger, 80-homer seasons may arrive,
and something— women’s soccer?— will eat a larger slice of
the sports viewership pie. But baseball will survive, predicts Joseph
Coates of the future-megatrends consulting firm Coates & Jarratt.
Only how we experience it will change. “Every little factory in the
South used to have its own team,” says Coates. “That kind of
participation won’t return.”
Other things that will hang around, according to the Oct. 2000 piece include death, sex, paper clips, shopping, zippers, religion, traffic congestion, and Dick Clark.
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