A few hits. A few misses. Those four hour work days will be nice! Maybe we'll have them by November.
1 posted on
03/26/2008 7:09:45 PM PDT by
Drew68
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To: Drew68
92 posted on
03/26/2008 10:01:19 PM PDT by
TheLion
To: Drew68
May I also suggest “As We May Think” a essay written by Dr.
Vannevar Bush that appeared in the July 1945 edition of the Atlantic Monthly.
The full-text is available here...
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush
To quote from the Wiki entry,
As We May Think predicted many kinds of technology invented after its publication, including hypertext, personal computers, the Internet, the World Wide Web, speech recognition, and online encyclopedias such as Wikipedia: “Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready-made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified.”
94 posted on
03/26/2008 10:08:41 PM PDT by
ADemocratNoMore
(Jeepers, Freepers, where'd 'ya get those sleepers?. Pj people, exposing old media's lies.)
To: Drew68
Also, they’re mounting another expidition to Jupiter to try to find out what happened to the one from 2001.
95 posted on
03/26/2008 10:18:56 PM PDT by
Erasmus
(Nihilism never amounted to anything.)
To: Drew68
IT’S 8 a.m., Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008... Well, we still have 7 months to go.
To: Drew68
Money has all but disappeared. Employers deposit salary checks directly into their employees’ accounts. Credit cards are used for paying all bills. Each time you buy something, the card’s number is fed into the store’s computer station. A master computer then deducts the charge from your bank balance.
Computers not only keep track of money, they make spending it easier. TV-telephone shopping is common.
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They got this right...
106 posted on
03/27/2008 4:53:51 AM PDT by
wtc911
("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
To: Drew68
........Medical examinations are a matter of sitting in a diagnostic chair for a minute or two, then receiving a full health report......
Close. Today, a series of blood samples are taken and inserted into analytic devices that make the determination and spit out the report. It is medicine by the numbers.
109 posted on
03/27/2008 4:59:33 AM PDT by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . Never say never (there'll be a VP you'll like))
To: Drew68
2008: All Computers will be interconnected in a huge community where shopping, information, news, entertainment and discussions can be done. Most of the traffic is porn related.
121 posted on
03/29/2008 4:34:01 PM PDT by
Always Right
(Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
To: Drew68
Amazing predictions! I notice that two things people like to do—drive and cook—have not yet become automated to the degree predicted, though.
To: Drew68
You simply press a combination of buttons and the pages flash on your home screen. The world’s information is available to you almost instantaneously. Yeah they got that one pretty much right.
125 posted on
04/20/2008 3:19:21 PM PDT by
Gideon7
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