On the classification of predictions

"In 2024, life on planet Earth will be a dream.
Cancer will be defeated, there will be no more hunger or wars in the world.
Humans will colonize Mars. They will move around in flying cars & it will no longer be necessary to do hard physical labor."

That's roughly what you read in "Reader's Digest" magazines from the 1950s/1960s.

The year 2024 like -
 

You should bear this in mind when you hear someone talking today about how everything will be better in the future.

California: The Park Fire is now 400,000 acres, making it the 5th largest fire in California’s history. #wildfire #cafire #cawx
Crews continue to construct lines around this arson fire as hot and dry weather and an unstable airmass settle back into the region. There are over… pic.twitter.com/0Q04gwsLLX

— The Hotshot Wake Up (@HotshotWake) August 3, 2024

"Apocalypse fills my head, fire and smoke turns the sky blood red,
Thermonuclear warhead, chemical warfare, disease widespread.
People kneel to the might of a figure head, mother earth lies silent on
her death bed
Into the fire the blind are led, five billion people will soon be dead."

"FIRE! one day a great fire shall come
RAIN! a cleansing rain will wash away the scum
WAR! blood thirsty savages we've become
REVELATION! judgment night and now we're done."