Prognostication is no easy task, particularly as the length of time involved grows. Predictions of a future world made 100 years ago might seem ludicrous now as we sit here and look around us, realizing how far from reality those predictions have turned out to be. And yet we have even in our everyday lives things that the wildest imagination may not have come up with so long ago.
Speculation about the nature of transformation in the world of professional sports is an interesting case. It goes without saying that football, for example, has undergone a great deal of changes over the course of its existence.