In 1995 predicting Pittsburgh's digital future was easy -- and fun
30 years ago I foresaw how great the region would be by 2020, when Michael Keaton owned the Pirates, Rick Santorum was president and downtown was safe and over-populated. Some stuff even came true
My politically skewed gaze into the better and brighter future of the Pittsburgh region in 2020 was the whacky part of the Post-Gazette’s big package of articles on the economic future of the rusty but hopeful ex-Steel City. Maybe that’s why the editors buried it on Page 85 and it wasn’t listed in the index. If it weren’t for 9/11, the financial collapse of 2008 and the disastrous covid lockdowns of 2020, I bet everything I foresaw would have come true.
Who’s afraid of the Digital Age
March 7, 1995
