What shall we dream up next?
Here on the cusp of the year 2020, it’s hard for us fans of all things midcentury not to get caught in a wave of retrospective nostalgia. As if the transition from 1999 to 2000 wasn’t forward-looking enough at the time, in my mind the year 2020 is a thing of great futuristic speculation. Novels, movies, even episodes of The Simpsons have all concocted fantastical plotlines revolving around this fateful year. And here we are: See how far we’ve come, and what shall we dream up next?