Spooky how accurate these things can be...
Posted on 01/05/2005 5:40:12 PM PST by fo0hzy
"bus-type helicopters will travel along crowded air skyways."
If only it were so! The backups on the bridges across the bay here wouldn't affect my commute.
I don't write it, I just report it :P
I remember watching science fiction of the 50's and we aren't even close to where they thought we would be in many areas, specifically space travel, but are ahead in others such as size of computers. Jet aircraft are in many ways not that much more advanced. For instance an F104 of the 1950's is about as fast as or faster than an F-16. The real improvements are in electronics and targeting.
Seeing people in an avanced society traveling through galaxies while using computers which have large tape reels is a amusing.
In 1961 I thought I'd be dead by 2000....Im way ahead of the game
>foodless foods (minus nutritional properties)
Now this is true. (as I munch on my Cheetos)
Well, no look, it is one think to muse about flying cars and spaceports...but timely public transportation? Now that truly is out there science fiction. ;)
Where's my helicopter? This article clearly states that I am to travel about by my own personal helicotper, and I want it now! And while you're delivering the chopper, go ahead and drop me off one of those rocket belt thingy's so I can increase my stride to 30' a step.
Oh, you get those, too?
I've often wondered, how they know, whom to send those ads to?
Machines will "talk" to each other.
Even foresaw spam & computer virus virii, oh heck them trojan thingies in the email.
Ain't progress wunnerful? ;OP
Spooky how accurate these things can be...
Wow you can get a pen#s enlarged!!! Wehn did that happen?
From an interview with science fiction author Larry Niven in response to the question, "What do you feel you got most spectacularly wrong, by way of failure to predict or just plain being wrong?":
"[...] The wealth (as in flying cars) predicted by Heinlein and his followers (including myself) was another matter. It all went to welfare programs."
"Vast numbers of people are microscopically better off for that, except that we all have less to aspire to."
"Here is where the predictions failed: We didn't take Cargo Cult mentality into account [that being] "if somebody has something I don't, he must have stolen it."
"We didn't understand how good we could get at communication -- when you have something that someone else doesn't, the whole damn planet knows it. [...]"
OK, verification that my wife of 22 years isn't crazy. She has always put garbage (food scraps, things that rot and smell) in the freezer in plastic bags, then clears it out on garbage day. Makes it an adventure when I go through the freezer looking for a quick meal to microwave when she's away.
Now that's a keeper!!
Ahhh.. what's a typewriter? I just wanted to check my engine size... and I've forgotten.
SFS
Ummmmm, let's not be too hasty on that initial conclusion, mmmmmKay?
I can't get over how bumpy the ride is on the Las Vegas monorail. For the cost you would expect an ultra-smooth, modern ride, but the thing is worse than a freight train. It's just rubber wheels over a concrete "rail", so I guess that's the best you can expect. It's somewhat useful - despite the fact you have to walk half a mile from the Strip through the east side hotels to get to any of the stations. But I don't think they should waste any more money expanding it.
I'm 40 and obtained the garbage-freezing habit from my folks. Every trash day (that was my job for many years) I'd lug a solid block or two of frigid funky food out to the can. I guess it keep nasty odors down in the fridge.
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