Emphasis Preaching Journal
Shifting currents
Commentary
Most twentieth-century predictions about life in this new millennium have proved widely
off base. Much of what was forecast about technology simply hasn't happened, while
aspects of invention and the communications revolution far exceed anything that was
imagined. We are, at best, quite hopeless when forecasting massive shifts in human
trends. Now and again, there are hints at new days dawning, but most of us are too
myopic either to notice or to understand the implications.
