What will life be like in the year 2000? (amusing look back at 1961)

Pixelmatic ^

[Kerfuffle]

"TV-telephones and room-to-room TV"

I've decided that picturephones are the gold standard of bad futurology.

[stompk]

"I like the one about there being no mental illness!! Bahhahahahaa"

only true because they have re-defined "mental illness".
Homosexuality USED to be a mental illness. now it's something to strive for . . ./rollseyes

of course I suppose you could say we have also re-defined the word "freedom" too. . .

[TexasTransplant]

Was this Dan Rathers "Practice" Memo?

[MississippiMan]

Hey, they hit a few of 'em, LOL!

Speaking of futurism, back in '95 I was in the video production biz. I was videotaping a goofy feel-good waste-of-money seminar (attended by government workers at taxpayer expense) in which the featured speaker was a futurist. Bear in mind that this was 1995.

He told the audience that in the year 2000, there would be no need for live actors, that all movies would be 100% computer-generated. He said you'd be able to use your remote control to change a star from John Wayne to Tom Cruise, or even to yourself if you always wanted to be a movie star.

For 30 minutes of that tripe, which the attendees soaked up in slack-jawed wonder, this clown got paid $1000 and all expenses, including first-class airfare. I kid thee not. Been trying ever since to get someone to tell me how I can sign up to be a futurist, but nobody's talking.

MM

[eccentric]

Did you know that the Lost In Space series was suppose to be set in 1999? A book about it is called "The Way the Future Wasn't."

[eccentric]

Did you know that the Lost In Space series was suppose to be set in 1999? A book about it is called "The Way the Future Wasn't."

[A.J.Armitage]

It looks as if everything will be so easy that people will probably die from sheer boredom.

We have advanced technologies that prevent that.

[lindor]

Why is he smiling?

[eccentric]

Back then? Typewriters were pretty big.

[Hank Rearden]

Don't know why that reminds me of a Seinfeld quote: "She had Man-Zans!"

As in "Manhands, baby!"
To wit:

[blurb]

I loved this thread! I haven't laughed so hard in weeks. And the comments just topped everything. You guys are great.

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[vanagoner]

I mean, I was thinking to myself, WHO knows me THAT well?!! Crap! What happened to that "right of privacy" thingy they keep yapping about?!

Perhaps the handle "Steel and Fire and Stone" is an indication of shortcomings elsewhere?;-)

[TAquinas]

"Amazingly they did get somethings right, or came terribly close."

What amazing? There is nothing amazing about it.

Many of those items, like pool, telephones, recorders and TVs were already known.

[Ciexyz]

Yes, we'll all be jetting on hovercraft with The Jetsons.

I probably read this article back in 1961.

[fo0hzy]

What amazing? There is nothing amazing about it. Many of those items, like pool, telephones, recorders and TVs were already known.

I believe they were geared toward the common, blue-collar man.

Do you have an indoor pool? Video-phones? And answering machine that gives you up-to-the-minute news and transcribes your latest snail-mail? Wall-to-wall global TV?

You do??

Damn. I was going somewhere with that, too...

[OSHA]

Did it hurt too bad? (he asked afraid of the answer)

[Hank Rearden]

Many of those items, like pool, telephones, recorders and TVs were already known.

Yeah, but that indoor, jet-powered helipool thingie is new, I'm pretty sure.

And I want one soooooo bad.

[foreverfree]

I was born in 1961 fyi.

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