Posted on 10/04/2015 10:29:43 AM PDT by EveningStar
so ...what they thought the future would bring was 1) automation and 2) mobility.
not wrong conceptually, but they couldn’t anticipate the advent of computers and the internet.
fascinating, really.
LOL. I think Mike Judge hit a homerun with his view of the future. Love that movie.
There were some very funny clips in Sleeper about the perceptions of people in the future about those who lived in the past.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkK7wue2xGk
It’s strange that there isn’t more imagination about automated systems.
[snip] The Turk, also known as the Mechanical Turk or Automaton Chess Player (German: Schachturke, “chess Turk”’ Hungarian: A Turok), was a fake chess-playing machine constructed in the late 18th century. From 1770 until its destruction by fire in 1854 it was exhibited by various owners as an automaton, though it was exposed in the early 1820s as an elaborate hoax. [/snip]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turk
[snip] Artegal has a companion in Talus, a metal man who wields a flail and never sleeps or tires but will mercilessly pursue and kill any number of villains. Talus obeys Artegal’s command, and serves to represent justice without mercy (hence, Artegal is the more human face of justice). Later, Talus does not rescue Artegal from enslavement by the wicked Radigund, because Artegal is bound by a legal contract to serve her. [/snip]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Faerie_Queene#Major_characters
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#18 she is communicating with the Enterprise.
Nowdays it's some young Indian guy with scissors in a sweatshop.
The pictures are quite charming in and of themselves. Some are fanciful and others are quite creative. One thing I have noticed in pictures, movies depicting ideas of the future; is the “future” objects are of unusually large size. When what has happened is miniaturization.
The Pony Express was gone by the time the Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869.
With trains, cross-country travel was reduced to a few days.
LOL!
I just can’t help let...........
Amazing how many of the predictions came true—with the exceptions such as the flying postman, the mechanical barbershop, and the whale bus. But we do have aerial battles, robot cleaners, mechanized agriculture and the school teaching via recordings.
The paintings look cartoonish to us today, but the predictions were clearly very good.
If only it was that easy!
I’ve always hated cleaning bathrooms. I really would like one that’s waterproof with a drain in the floor I could hose down.
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