Seattle’s Future
Seattle’s Future World: Our Crystal Ball Predictions, Part 3
Trying to predict the future is humbling—but even when we know we’ll probably be wildly wrong, it’s fodder for good conversation
Click here for Seattle’s Future World: Our Crystal Ball Predictions, Part 2 The Melting of the Seattle FreezeIn 30 years, the climate will be a little nicer and the Seattle Freeze will have melted. All that will be left of our purported Nordic lack of camaraderie will be a few puddles of aloofness and a spattering…
Seattle’s Future World: Our Crystal Ball Predictions, Part 2
Trying to predict the future is humbling—but even when we know we’ll probably be wildly wrong, it’s fodder for good conversation
Click here for Seattle’s Future World: Our Crystal Ball Predictions, Part 1 Policing the City Acknowledging the potential game-changing repercussions of even a single unanticipated variable (say a cataclysmic act of terrorism, or “The Big One” in the Cascadia subduction zone), I hazard this guess of what the Seattle Police Department will look like in 25…
Seattle’s Future World: Our Crystal Ball Predictions, Part 1
Trying to predict the future is humbling, but even when we know we'll probably be wildly wrong, it's fodder for good conversation
Had I been making predictions about the future back in the 1960s, I would have been wildly wrong. Monorails aren’t whisking us everywhere. Flying cars haven’t made freeways obsolete. The Kingdome didn’t outlast us all. Supersonic jets never caught on—in fact, not building them helped plunge Seattle into a deep recession. People who did bet on…