Another original Nine Shift prediction: between 2030 and 2040 your children will be urging your grandchildren to learn to drive - - just in case.
By 2030 few people under age 40 will be driving. They will all be on trains and light rail. But the old folks will urge them to learn to drive - - just in case.
When my mother was growing up in the 1920s and 1930s, my grandfather made sure she knew how to ride a horse, "just in case" as my mother put it. What circumstances were "just in case" my mother didn't know.
But my co-author Julie knows what "just in case" means. When she was a child, she had a horse and had to ride pell mell through the fields to get the doctor for a family emergency. Photo: Julie and her pony, early 1950s
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