[mystery-ak]

In 1961 I thought I'd be dead by 2000....Im way ahead of the game

[sandbar]

>foodless foods (minus nutritional properties)

Now this is true. (as I munch on my Cheetos)

[mdittmar]

And in that year a Freeper was born.

[Space Wrangler]

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.

[ancient_geezer]

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

[general_re]

Energy will come in tablet form.

Spooky how accurate these things can be...

[dmzTahoe]

"Garbage will be refrigerated, and pressed into fertiliser pellets."

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.

[Steel and Fire and Stone]

The engine will be smaller than a typewriter.

Ahhh.. what's a typewriter? I just wanted to check my engine size... and I've forgotten.

SFS

[GreenHornet]

Your house will probably have air walls, and a floating roof

I've had a few nights where that seemed to be the case.

[Radix]

Back in the mid 1960s when I was young I recall seeing a magazine cover. It was either Look or Life I think.

It showed on the cover four Presidents, three of the future. John F Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, and John Kennedy jr.!

[Radix]

 

[Dog Gone]

Awesome post.

[BJClinton]

By the year 2020, five per cent of the world's population will have emigrated into space.

47% of all percentages are made up on the spot.

[Stringfellow Hawke]

I'm still waiting for x-ray glasses that really work 8)...

[scottybk]

Around the time this article was written, a strapping young genuis, a sage, a prophet for his time, was idly daydreaming in his ninth-grade algebra class when a magnifecent idea seized him. The idea for a global network of inter-connnected home computers, capable of transitting entire libraries of information at light speed, reproducing sound, data, and films across the globe in mere seconds...

The young man's name was Albert Gore, Jr. We know him better as the Inventor of the Internet!

[MotleyGirl70]

They didn't predict dorks riding around on these though.

Segway a.k.a. "IT"

[Kerfuffle]

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

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

[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

[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.