In January 2005, The Irish Times published a “future edition” of its Saturday Magazine, inviting specialist journalists and other experts to predict the world in 2025. Here are some of the things our 2005 future edition got nearly right, and some things it got quite wrong. “It could be quite shocking for those in their 20s and 30s who have known nothing but the economic good times. They will perform constant diagnostics on our bodies, sensing potential health problems.”TemperaturesMost of the writing about climate change in the 2005 future edition was accurate. “It seems quite possible that in 2025, we will be enjoying a revival of reality TV fronted by that much-loved old biddy Davina McCall,” he wrote.

Source: The Irish Times December 27, 2025 09:00 UTC