I'm glad someone else caught that; my Mama hammered that one home along with "the reason is because" -- the reason is MEANS because....
I think the future will be not only different from what we imagine, but that it will be different from anything we CAN imagine. Thirty years ago I would not have imagined the world as it is now. Would you? Did you?
No, I don't think so. As I recall, we were expecting the Cold War to go on forever. We were heading into the Carter years (egad!). I'm glad things have turned out differently from what we anticipated in 1975!