YESTERDAY’S TOMORROWS: R.J. Lehmann got a hold of a 1979 issue of Omni, including readers’ predictions:

Predictions Shared By More Than 50% of Omni Readers
…PREDICTION: By the late 1980s, cloned human beings will become a reality.
OUTCOME: They clearly didn’t hit the mark, but how far off they were is tough to judge. If you count embryos as humans, then Advanced Cell Technologies claimed to have done it in 2001 and Hwang Woo-Suk definitely did it in 2004, making them off by a decade and a half. If the claim is for a truly viable, post-embryonic human, then I guess it depends on what you think of the claims made by Panagiotis Zavos and Severino Antinori, or those of the Raelians. …

PREDICTION: Gas prices will top $1-a-gallon by 1982.
OUTCOME: The one prediction readers were likely hoping wouldn’t come true, and it actually arrived two years early… at least, in California, which is the only market for which I have data. The average nominal price of gasoline jumped from $0.89 in 1979 ($1.98 in today’s dollars) to $1.23 in 1980 ($2.49) before going on to hit a peak price of $1.66 ($3.08) in 1981.

more–I’m addicted to this kind of thing