Get Out Your Crystal Ball

For those of you not familiar with Mr. Left, he's got an interesting tidbit this weekend. You know how at the end of every year, newspapers all put out their predictions about what will happen in the coming year, decade, etc.? Well, the Guardian in England apparently made some shocking predictions ten years ago. The last one is the most striking. The actually predicted the ascension of the Governator a full decade ago.

But while some of its predictions were predictably wide of the mark (William Hague gives the 2004 budget), others were uncannily accurate. In 2004, it said, we would be watching hundreds of implausibly specialised TV channels such as the Arsenal Channel and the Gardening Channel. Broadsheet newspapers would be a thing of the past; the quality dailies would all be tube-friendly. One of the main items was an interview with Prince Harry entitled, "Harry: The Mother I Never Knew". And the governor of California, it claimed, would be one Arnold Schwarzenegger.