Thirty-five years ago, Isaac Asimov was asked by the Star to predict the world of 2019. Here is what he wrote.
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As a US grocery chain is dismantled, investors recover their money. Worker pensions are short millions.
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The other side of paradise: How I left a Buddhist retreat in handcuffs
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I am staying home on New Year's Eve, and I'm totally fine about it
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Washington state officials passed a bill to rename a post office near Jimi Hendrix‘s hometown of Seattle to honor the guitar god.
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How the artificial intelligence program AlphaZero mastered its games
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How much of the internet is fake?
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Inside Facebook’s secret rulebook for global political speech
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‘I feel invisible’: Native Americans languish in public schools
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Mariah Carey song from 1994 breaks music streaming record: “All I Want For Christmas Is You” was streamed nearly eleven million times on December 24th, 2018
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Remember Bitcoin? Some investors might want to forget
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Thailand approves medical marijuana in New Year's 'gift'
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Patreon, Kickstarter and the new patrons of the arts
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Third-wave anti-racism makes sense, but it’s a dead end
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Susan Moylan-Coombs to run as an independent against Tony Abbott in Warringah
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What is glitter? A strange journey to the glitter factory.
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The mad scramble to claim the world's most coveted meteorite
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Test your knowledge of American incarceration
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Americans are dangerously sleep deprived
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The itsy-bitsy, teenie-weenie, very litigious bikini
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A murder over a Monsanto chemical
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Johnson & Johnson knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its baby powder
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Prime and punishment: Dirty dealing in the $175 billion Amazon Marketplace
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For old-geezer actors, this is also the era of peak TV
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How to keep the news coming
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Plastic water bottles, which enabled a drinks boom, now threaten a crisis
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How we lost our ambitions for the tech-enabled home
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SIPC says it has serious concerns about Robinhood's new product
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Apple computers used to be built in the US. It was a mess
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Kindertransport children to get 2,500 euros in compensation from German government
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Dear male cyclists, lose the attitude
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He helped build an artists’ utopia. Now he faces trial for thirty-six deaths there.
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The tale of a fake hitman, a kill list, a darknet vigilante... and a murder
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The real roots of American rage - How anger became the dominant emotion in our politics and personal lives—and what we can do about it
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Virgin Galactic achieves space on SpaceShipTwo test flight
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Films with heroines make more money
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"Mischievous responders" have been tainting the data about health disparities between LGBT youth and their peers
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ABC and SBS cleared by review into claims they compete unfairly with commercial rivals
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Kelly Slater’s Shock Wave
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100 greatest Bruce Springsteen songs of all time
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China ruling could ban some Apple iPhones sales amid Qualcomm fight (affects 6S through X)
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In China, a school trains boys to be ‘real men’
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