What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008? (from 1968 magazine article)

Mechanix Illustrated ^ | November 1968 | James R. Berry

[A_Former_Democrat]

Vanished in abortion mills.

[Lady Jag]

Gee! I wonder where the missing 50 million people went?

Fanning glaciers for Al Gore.

[new cruelty]

This is about as close as I have seen

http://www.moller.com/

[death2tyrants]

“Mariculturists have turned areas of the sea into beds of protein-rich seaweed and algae. “

Multiculturists have turned areas of America into beds of illiterate, poverty stricken, PC-rich, crime-ridden sewages.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Computer technology has exceeded the predictions - everything else has fallen well short. Most of the described advances are technologically possible, but economically infeasible.

[Drew68]

Seriously. It might be a bit presumptuous to think that any of us will be here in 40 or 50 years, (I know I won't be) but it may be interesting to see some 'projections' of what other Freepers think.

Sadly, have you ever seen the film Idiocracy? I guess I'm not an optimist.

[proxy_user]

If you look at the predictions from gadgeteers, they may anticipate the gadget, but don’t see what social impact it will have.

The Jetsons are a 50s nuclear family living in a world of gadgets. If such gadgets really existed, they would have considerable impact on behavior and social structure.

[martin_fierro]

The car accelerates to 150 mph in the city’s suburbs, then hits 250 mph in less built-up areas,

That at least sums up how the commute begins around here.

[WOSG]

PING For tech-topia
“90 minutes from new York to Paris ...”
- Donald Fagan’s ‘What a beautiful world”

[SwankyC]

Do this

The intelligence pill is another 21st century commodity.

And then it's correct. We do take lots of pills in this country,

[M203M4]

In 1968, they never thought we would permit a holocaust on American soil.

[Muleteam1]

>>Money has all but disappeared.<<

Had he said "The dollar has all but disappeared." he would have gotten one prediction right.

[A_perfect_lady]

Here's my prediction for 2048:

The call goes out for Morning prayers. You and your four wives turn to the East... you have to, because you're on camera at all times. It's the Truman Show meets Sharia Law, and ever since your teenaged daughter was stoned to death for having a boyfriend, you've taken the rules pretty seriously....

[snarks_when_bored]

Mr. Berry in 1968—and large numbers of science fiction writers and movie makers then and since then—have drastically over-estimated the pace of the technological transformation of the infrastructure of society.

[dfwgator]

There’ll be spandex jackets, one for everyone...

[WOSG]

Try a Roomba.

[martin_fierro]

[r-q-tek86]

where’s my ROBOT???

I think it went that way --->

[Jagman]

"Perfect weather for a streamlined world There'll be spandex jackets one for everyone

What a beautiful world this will be What a glorious time to be free"

-Steely Dan, IGY

[Ezekiel]

IT’S 8 a.m., Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008, and you are headed for ...

the lavatory, still heavily intoxicated a fortnight after election day, wondering how much longer the booze supply will last...