Americans in 1998 tried to predict 2025. Here’s what they got right
- Posted on December 29, 2025
- By CNN
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Americans in 1998 tried to predict 2025. Here’s what they got right
In the year 1998 – when Bill Clinton was president, most households still had landline phones, and CNN’s website looked like this – Gallup and USA Today called up 1,055 Americans on those landlines and asked them for their best predictions about a year in the distant future: 2025.
