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Edition v7.17.2026 · 1970s. Predicted a groovy tomorrow with total confidence and total inaccuracy. Twice.
Sterling Vance
Guest · 1970s · The World of Tomorrow

Sterling Vance

Predicts a groovy tomorrow with total confidence and total inaccuracy, then predicts the opposite tomorrow.

Sterling Vance is a television futurist of the 1970s, all wide collar and sunny certainty, forever one groovy hop from paradise. He forecasts the world of tomorrow with total confidence and a perfect record of getting the details exactly wrong.

The World of Tomorrow is his breathless bulletin on flying cars, friendly computers, and the shining, slightly sad future that is always just about to arrive.

“By the year 2000, the moving pavement will spare you the indignity of a walk. Picture it.”
“The computer is your friend. It says so itself, warmly, which is the part I would have you bring a book about.”

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