On November 27, 1960, a Houston branch of the All State insurance company buried a time capsule containing the predictions of more than 20,000 area students about life in 2000—the year of its planned exhumation. Reporter Lee Tucker shares a selection of the messages in this KPRC-TV news segment. One accurately projects a metro-area population exceeding 4.5 million people. Others are not quite as prophetic, from forecasts about interplanetary travel via flying saucer to the election of President Caroline Kennedy.

The following video collection explores how Texans envision the future. How would advances in medicine and technology change our daily lives? How would we dress? What might we still discover in outer space? The selection also highlights a few unforeseen trends from the turn of the twenty-first century, from the Pokémon phenomenon to the crowning of Beyoncé.

On November 27, 1962, a Houston branch of the All State insurance company buried a time capsule containing the predictions of more than 20,000 area students about life in 2000—the year of its planned exhumation. Reporter Lee Tucker shares a selection of the messages in this KPRC-TV news segment. One accurately projects a metro-area population exceeding 4.5 million people. Others are not quite as prophetic, from forecasts about interplanetary travel via flying saucer to the election of President Caroline Kennedy.

The following video collection explores how Texans envision the future. How would advances in medicine and technology change our daily lives? How would we dress? What might we still discover in outer space? The selection also highlights a few unforeseen trends from the turn of the twenty-first century, from the Pokémon phenomenon to the crowning of Beyoncé.

On November 27, 1960, a Houston branch of the All State insurance company buried a time capsule containing the predictions of more than 20,000 area students about life in 2000—the year of its planned exhumation. Reporter Lee Tucker shares a selection of the messages in this KPRC-TV news segment. One accurately projects a metro-area population exceeding 4.5 million people. Others are not quite as prophetic, from forecasts about interplanetary travel via flying saucer to the election of President Caroline Kennedy.

The following video collection explores how Texans envision the future. How would advances in medicine and technology change our daily lives? How would we dress? What might we still discover in outer space? The selection also highlights a few unforeseen trends from the turn of the twenty-first century, from the Pokémon phenomenon to the crowning of Beyoncé.