At work, Dad will operate on a 24 hour week. The office will be air-conditioned with stimulating scents and extra oxygen - to give a physical and psychological lift.
I could use the extra oxygen at work...............
To: PeterPrinciple
They didn't forsee 4 years of Jimmy Carter and 8 years of the Clintons' co-presidency.
2 posted on
08/17/2006 1:47:00 PM PDT by
weegee
(Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
To: PeterPrinciple
The status symbol of the year 2000 will be the home computer help, which will help mother tend the children, cook the meals and issue reminders of appointments. And most importantly be used by the Pajama People to thwart Rat-State sponsored television infotainment.
3 posted on
08/17/2006 1:48:50 PM PDT by
weegee
(Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
To: PeterPrinciple
4 posted on
08/17/2006 1:49:21 PM PDT by
Michael Goldsberry
(Lt. Bruce C. Fryar USN 01-02-70 Laos)
To: PeterPrinciple
Where can I get my hoppicopter??
5 posted on
08/17/2006 1:50:46 PM PDT by
Choose Ye This Day
(Why does our government "of the people" do things the people don't want--overtax & overregulate us?)
To: PeterPrinciple
Not hard to believe; when you look back 40 years - 100 years, things have changed so much. I wonder what it was like when Grandpa was a kid back in Texas: horses, cowboys, Indians, a few cars here and there, no radio/tv/movies, no air conditioning, a newspaper every week. It is getting much easier. Having said that, I imagine we will not die of boredom. Lots of money to be made in entertainment in the future.
To: PeterPrinciple
Here's my favorite part:
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.
Anyone mind if I pick the 5 percent? And if the "emigration" resembles ejection?
But seriously, this ain't bad for a 39-year look into the future. Some of it is right on target, and I can imagine that from the author's perspective all of it was equally fantastic.
7 posted on
08/17/2006 2:01:19 PM PDT by
thoughtomator
(Islam delenda est)
To: PeterPrinciple
By the year 2020, five per cent of the world's population will have emigrated into space. "Space" must be a euphemism for Texas and California.
To: PeterPrinciple
I want my rocket pack!! I have yet to be issued my rocket pack!
To: PeterPrinciple
The status symbol of the year 2000 will be the home computer help, which will help mother tend the children, cook the meals and issue reminders of appointments. Well we got the computer alright but now Mother's gone.
15 posted on
08/17/2006 2:32:00 PM PDT by
Argus
To: PeterPrinciple
futuristic ideas, conceived by imaginative young men, whose crazy-sounding schemes have got the nod from the scientistsWhere would we be without anonymous scientists?
18 posted on
09/13/2006 7:17:24 PM PDT by
siunevada
(If we learn nothing from history, what's the point of having one? - Peggy Hill)
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