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Year 2000 predictions by children

Broadcast Date: Dec. 31, 1999

Although many of them can't even pronounce the word, elementary students in British Columbia offer their predictions for the new millennium. "People won't work in the new millennium because the robots will do it," says one student. "Robots are gonna help us clean up when we have a messy room...we can eat junk food as long as we live," says another giggling with delight at the thought.

Year 2000 predictions by children

• The first child of the new millennium was a baby boy born one minute past midnight in New Zealand.
• In 1966, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke predicted in Vogue magazine that houses would fly by the year 2001.

• "Despite the trend to compactness and lower costs, it is unlikely everyone will have his own computer any time soon."
— Reporter Stanley Penn, The Wall Street Journal, 1966
• "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
— Thomas Watson, Senior Chairman of IBM, 1943

Year 2000 predictions by children

Medium: Radio

Program: CBC Radio Special

Broadcast Date: Dec. 31, 1999

Host: Bernie McNamee, Shelagh Rogers

Duration: 2:00

Last updated:
Aug. 14, 2009

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