IN August 1991, an 11-year-old Canadian penned a brief note to his future self.

Mitch Brogan got the idea from his late grandfather Charles — to answer a list of 11 predictions and seal them up in an envelope until Jan. 1, 2020.

The letter stayed hidden away in a book in his grandfather’s office until his death in 2006, when his grandson came across it by chance.

He waited to open it as promised until New Year’s Day. So what did he get right about life in 2020?

The 39-year-old from London, Ontario, said he couldn’t recall much about what he’d written in the note. Inside the envelope was a thin, folded piece of paper and an old, ratty 1 Canadian dollar (US$0.77) bill from 1954.

But he said when he opened the note “it all flooded back.”

At the top of the letter was his childhood address, the date — Aug. 25, 1991 – and a rough map to two other time capsules he and his cousin had buried on their grandfather’s property.

What were his predictions, now nearly three decades old?

He would be married, have two children and own a house, a boat, a car, and a truck. He would be a writer and “maybe a lawyer” [sic] and would be earning a handsome C$450 a month.

He had dire predictions about the environment, imagining a world where none of the rivers and lakes would be clean, and where humans would “infest” other planets and “trash them up like they did to Earth.”

(SD-Agencies)