Reviewing these predictions highlights the evolving relationship between public expectation and real-world development.

Americans feel more politically connected by generation than they do by race or gender, CNN polling data finds.

A.I. is broad. A breakthrough in manufacturing may affect only manufacturing, but an A.I. breakthrough could transform manufacturing, physics, finance, music and dozens of other fields. So the backlash is just as sprawling, and there are various reasons for it:

Nearly half of seniors quit GLP-1 weight-loss drugs within a year. Experts reveal why older Americans abandon medications like Ozempic and Wegovy despite results.

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.

That fact that they know that that’s the risk and they still get out there shows you how bad it is for them on a day-to-day basis,” an Iranian-American said.

For many Asian Americans, a single cocktail can cause their faces to turn red. Known as the “Asian glow,” the condition can stir up mixed emotions.

British Chinese takeout bears so few similarities to its US counterpart that Americans have been sharing their surprise, and sometimes outright horror, on social media.

Affordability has become a political buzzword, with Americans increasingly voicing discontent about the high cost of everything from housing to groceries to daycare. Workers in many parts of the country say they feel priced out of their communities, unable to afford a mortgage or even monthly rent payments.