Description for THE GOOD YEARS: YOUR LIFE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY by Caroline Bird: In this book Caroline Bird, economist, social forecaster, and author of BORN FEMALE and THE TWO-PAYCHECK-MARRIAGE, among others -- tells us what these years will be like. By that time the population will be predominantly middle-aged or older and the mid-life crisis reported by Gail Sheehy will be a thing of the past. Based on an analysis of what America is like in 1983 Bird thoughtfully charts what the upcoming technological and medical advances will mean for you, and even whether you'll be living in the conventional nuclear family or experimenting with other lifestyles. She creates a scenario of how daily life might look and feel in the year 2010 -- limbering our imaginations with "wild card" things that just might happen, as crazy as stockbrokers doing business by satellite form South Pacific islands, or as radical as solving the problem of illegal aliens by eliminating the Mexican border.
