Old magazines

I can't remember where i was, but it was someplace with a lot of old magazines (and I mean old magazines, dating back to 2004-05). I just thought it was interesting to read through some of those articles about how in 2010 we'll have such and such a technology in all our cars, or how by 2015 all our energy sources will be run off solar power ect. I find it funny that all these articles were written, and here it is 2008, and things are pretty much the same. We haven't found a "new source of energy", World war 3 hasn't struck us yet, and overall predicted doomsday hasn't hit us yet.

The reason behind these articles? I believe it's because juicy, gossipy, bad news sells magazines. There was minimal support behind the articles, just some authors dreaming something up to help sell their magazine. Is it possible that it's like this for all of the media? Constantly looking for the bad things in life? Why doesn't the media look on the good things in life, or the realistic? I guess they just do what it takes to make money.