Children's predictions from 1991 prove prescient

Though the exercise was lighthearted, AbbVie Vice President of Global Biologics Jochen Salfeld said the long-term nature of a time capsule is not so different from the long-term work that AbbVie's researchers do to create new medicines. The time capsule's 1991 objects illustrated just how...

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Published inTelegram & gazette
Main Author Eckelbecker, Lisa
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Worcester, Mass GateHouse Media, Inc 23.10.2016
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Summary:Though the exercise was lighthearted, AbbVie Vice President of Global Biologics Jochen Salfeld said the long-term nature of a time capsule is not so different from the long-term work that AbbVie's researchers do to create new medicines. The time capsule's 1991 objects illustrated just how much has disappeared in 25 years. Discount retailer Spag's of Shrewsbury, once a retail institution of Central Massachusetts, was sold, shuttered and finally demolished. The Berlin Wall is a memory, and VHS tapes gave way as a video storage tool to DVDs and then streaming.
ISSN:1050-4184