Posted on 01/14/2005 4:26:11 AM PST by billorites
Au contraire, Orwell's devastating analysis of the left has been borne out time and again
Dad is so hooked up with the laptop, pager, and cell phone that he can't get away from work.
I'd write a long paragraph in response to this but the air-conditioning just failed in my chair so it's uncomfortable sitting here.
You'll have a home control room - an electronics centre, where messages will be recorded when you're away from home. This will play back when you return, and also give you up-to-the minute world news, and transcribe your latest mail.
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.
Food won't be very different from 1961, but there will be a few new dishes ...juice powders and synthetic tea and cocoa. Energy will come in tablet form.
The office will be air-conditioned
Mail and newspapers will be reproduced instantly anywhere in the world by facsimile. There will be machines doing the work of clerks, shorthand writers and translators. Machines will "talk" to each other
Ya gotta love those old lingerie ads!!
"foodless foods (minus nutritional properties)"
Sounds like Diet food/drinks to me. They taste downright nasty! :)
I guess these scientists didn't realize that both Islam and the DemonRats would still be around in 2000.
Stuff they got wrong -- Well that list is pretty long, and more than a few of their predictions were just plain silly. For example -- How exactly does "remote control clothes hanging" work?
Stuff they got right -- Answering machines, computers and microwave ovens.
Stuff they mentioned that we should have, but still don't -- solar heating and power, energy efficient transportation, and high speed rail transport.
Gee, thanks for that earworm!
Half of this stuff probably would have come to pass if people weren't so worried about being sued...
Science can always predict what tomorrow will bring. What they always fail to predict is what God can do to change their forecast completely inside of an hour.
All the naysayers who tell us about the dangers of global warming and how we are destroying this planet are missing one vital piece of the puzzle... God is in charge. As a result, no one can't properly predict what will happen in one hour.
With the price of education, students should be able to sue their professors whenever their class lectures turn our to be wrong.
Why shouldn't professors pay as much for malpractice insurance as doctors do?
Where are the lawyers on this one?
Thought you would find this interesting
I pay no attention to these kinds of articles having been brutally disappointed by the failure of 'My Weekly Reader' to make good on it's lies about the future.
One future hope I do harbor...no RATs.
You'll have wall-to-wall global TV, TV-telephones and room-to-room TV.
Satellite and cable on the plasma tv, cell phones, and security cameras.
Cooking will be in solar ovens with microwave controls.
GE came out with the Advantium oven several years ago. Cooks with bright halogen lights, with microwave option too. They didn't take to the market too well. They do bake (not microwave) potatoes and roast a chicken really fast.
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