They lied...
Oooo...glamour undies!
I want my flying car gosh darn it! How else can you get to the spaceport on time.
And that's just on Monday.
Some of the predictions were surprisingly correct.
This sounds as if it was put together by several people, some up on the latest technology and some on the latest comic books.
Screw the flying cars. Where's my robot maid?
You'll have wall-to-wall global TV, an indoor swimming pool, TV-telephones and room-to-room TV. 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.
Amazingly they did get somethings right, or came terribly close.
Rocket belts will increase a man's stride to 30 feet,
Unfortunately my rocket belt is at the shop for repairs.
They lied...
Well, some of those are pretty close--but even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Futurists have tended to be notoriously wrong over the years. In 1961, I bet they never imagined that the "machines that talk to each other" would be a means for accessing unlimited porn (along with the news). And that everyone would be constantly bombarded by ads for pen#s enlargement.
Actually, when you view the movie 2001, we are quite a bit further advanced than the movie predicted, especially in communications and computers. We could have done the space travel they showed in the movie had we been willing to spend the money. We have the technology to do everything they did.
They apparently didn't foresee the rise of Liberalism...
>You will be whisked around in monorail vehicles at 200 miles >an hour and you will think nothing of taking a fortnight's >holiday in outer space.
I will remember this as I sit in Atlanta traffic.
And weep.
I misread one line - thought it said "The family CAT will be soundless, vibrationless and self propelled." Must clean off this monitor!
That one is funny.
Big deal here in Las Vegas about a monorail, been going on for years, funding, etc.
They finally built the thing. Great words from all the local politicos, heavy local news coverage, etc....
and they had to shut it down 'cuz pieces parts were falling off - literally falling off to the streets below.
Typical, for Las Vegas. Too bad "kick backs" don't have an automatic trace.....
LVM
They foresaw the Atkins diet.
Our children ... will get pills to make them learn faster.
Or at least sit down, shut up and stare blankly at the blackboard.
And some of that ManZan stuff wouldn't hurt either. With a name like that, it's gotta be good!
I wonder if you eat, smoke, smear or stuff it?
Sugar made from sawdust?
Sugar made from sawdust?
>foodless foods (minus nutritional properties)
Now this is true. (as I munch on my Cheetos)
Those were the days...... You could even buy guns listed in the back of Field & Stream and Outdoor Life.
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.