Well, they got some part right...

[Liar]

I love those kind of articles.

"Will life be worth living in 2000AD?" - from 1961

They pretty much nailed the Internet, processed food, and there's something about microwave cooking in there too.

But air walls? Isn't that what hobos have?

And dammit, I want a 24 hour working WEEK, instead of day...

 

[3113]

You know, I keep tossing my clothes on the floor for the remote control to put away...it doesn't seem to be working

 

[carsonshepherd]

Obviously scientists didn't take big oil into account when they predicted mass transit and cars propelled thermostatically - we're still in 1961 there.

 

[The_Fool]

The totally missed the boat on Mr. Mom...

 

[voluptuary_manque]

"Rejuvenation will be in the middle stages of research, and people will live, healthily, to 85 or 100."

Close, close . . .

 

[TE999]

Wal-Mart just slashed it's prices on rocket belts. I'm getting two!

 

[starrkers]

The sad thing is, most of the things that didn't come to pass, could have except there was no money in it for the corporations.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

The sad thing is, most of the things that didn't come to pass, could have except there was no money in it for the corporations.

Corporations are part of pension plans so what you said was there was no money in it for people who save for the future. I get really tired of "business is the bad guy" postings. Do you really want us all to work for the government? I'm close to getting out and let me tell you it will feel good to not be part of the gov.

Maybe I'll be come an entrenpeneur and let some mega corp buy me out then retire to the Riviera . . . or Perth . . . or . . . probably stay right where I am. I mean, why move?

 

[starrkers]

Oh for crying out loud, I'm not having a political bitchfest. What I meant was - fast trains, domestic robots, space travel and suchlike have no immediate payoff in economic terms. The benefits are more tenuous and longterm than the computerisation of industry and mass communications.
Most corporations (PUBLIC OR PRIVATELY OWNED) do not look for long term benefits, merely short term payoffs. So many of the advances mentioned in that article never came about, even though the vast majority of them are quite possible.

Jesus, I make a passing comment on the vagaries of human development and get slammed for political commentary I never frigging intended.

I thought this was predominantly a sex and chat site, not a political manifesto.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

'm sorry . . .

 

[TE999]

Oh for crying out loud, I'm not having a political bitchfest. Jesus, I make a passing comment on the vagaries of human development and get slammed for political commentary I never frigging intended.

I thought this was predominantly a sex and chat site, not a political manifesto.

'm sorry . . .

Now c'mon guys. Let's be friends.

There's too much of this crapola on this site as it is.

 

[galaxygoddess]

I read the whole thing word for word. the funny part is, this was published the year my mom was born.


Reading it word for word and really thinking about it, about 75% or so IS possible today, but not widely used. like evergy pills, and I have seem remote control closets in rich people homes.


Interesting and slightly silly article

 

[CharleyH]

I love those kind of articles.

"Will life be worth living in 2000AD?" - from 1961

They pretty much nailed the Internet, processed food, and there's something about microwave cooking in there too.

But air walls? Isn't that what hobos have?

And dammit, I want a 24 hour working WEEK, instead of day...

I love it, Liar (not the working week, mind you). Lets venture a guess into the year 2060 ... can we even see what happens? I don't cook cuz' I am dead. People still try to impress and they still fuck, so they still get disappointed because they get herpes. BUT- I don't cook! I'm with ... GOD. He cooks.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

By the year 2020, five per cent of the world's population will have emigrated into space. Many will have visited the moon and beyond.

Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

 

[where]

Pretty please can i have a computer that does all the mummy stuff? and the carousel bra advert? I have one of those!

 

[Liar]

Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

This was 1961. I'm betting on LSD.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Or peyote.

Actually, I've always believed that "futurists" drug of choice is ego . . .

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Oh for crying out loud, I'm not having a political bitchfest. What I meant was - fast trains, domestic robots, space travel and suchlike have no immediate payoff in economic terms. The benefits are more tenuous and longterm than the computerisation of industry and mass communications.
Most corporations (PUBLIC OR PRIVATELY OWNED) do not look for long term benefits, merely short term payoffs. So many of the advances mentioned in that article never came about, even though the vast majority of them are quite possible.

Jesus, I make a passing comment on the vagaries of human development and get slammed for political commentary I never frigging intended.

I thought this was predominantly a sex and chat site, not a political manifesto.

Agreed, this is a fun thread, but your first statement was highly political. This expansion of what you meant makes perfect sense, though.

Hey - we are on the threshold of commercial space travel. Joyrides for millionaires at first, but SpaceShip One and it's coming successor forged the way. I'm holding out for zero-gee sex junkets . . .

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

In 2048 -

I want 2,000 mph vacuum-tunnel mag-lev trains providing inter-city transportation all around the world, and a space elevator making it possible to truly colonize space, and eventually the stars.

(OK, how about 2148?)

 

[The_Fractal_King]

Who thought "foodless foods" was a good idea?

Still, I'm really impressed by how much ended up being accurate/ possible.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

This was 1961. I'm betting on LSD.

I was referring to the here and now, as in cocaine being the vehicle through which five per cent of the world's population emigrates into space and many travel to the moon and beyond. Blah, if I have to explain the joke, it wasn't a very good one.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I'm thinking of my great-grandmother born in 1878, died 1970.

In her life span: Automobiles, human flight, space flight to the Moon, computers, television, antibiotics, cures for many diseases, and the Holocaust.

In my life span 1949-2008 we get to add the internet and cell phones and PCs. Thats it for major techologies.

I'm not optimistic about the next 50 years. I see America Balkanized and Americans serving the Global Rich who own the country.

 

[tickledkitty]

I'm thinking of my great-grandmother born in 1878, died 1970.

In her life span: Automobiles, human flight, space flight to the Moon, computers, television, antibiotics, cures for many diseases, and the Holocaust.

In my life span 1949-2008 we get to add the internet and cell phones and PCs. Thats it for major techologies.

I'm not optimistic about the next 50 years. I see America Balkanized and Americans serving the Global Rich who own the country.

1949? Huh. I was thinking you were a good 10 to 15 years older.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

TK

Thats what happens when you try and think. Just lie back and think of...England.

 

[3113]

I have seem remote control closets in rich people homes.

It's not too expensive to have a closet with one of those spinning organizers--if you've enough clothes and a closet large enough to need it. Dry cleaners have had this sort of thing for a long time. A conveyer belt on which hangers hang. Punch in a number and that hanger comes swinging around your way. So you take a digital picture of the item on it's hanger, put picture and number of item into your computer, organize all pictures according to whatever keywords: summer, suit, blue....there's plenty of inexpensive wardrobe programs that will do this for you. Or you could just use a photo program.

You enter in the keywords, look at all the pictures of your blue summer suits and find one that you want for the day. Go to the closet, tap in its number, and before you can say, "Clueless," your closet brings it to you. Undoubtedly, with internet, it's possible that you could send a message to a closet computer from your laptop to have it already there when you walk into the bedroom. This all sounds expensive, but if you think about it, it's not. You have the computer, right? You probably have the digital camera and photo software that will do the job. All you need is the closet spinner.

The reason "rich" people are more likely to have it than you is because it's pointless if you only have a small closet and few clothes. The rich can have a room-sized closet filled with so many clothes they really do need to use a computer to keep track of them all and a spinner to get to what they're after in a timely fashion. They can also hire someone to do all the tedious data entry for them.

The problem is, you *still* need to hang the suit back up on its hanger once you're done with it. Nothing in that closet picks the stuff up off the floor for you. And that was what the article predicted.

I'm still hoping it's right and my automatic-picker-upper is broken.