"Oh these are nice, and some are true! And the future predictions are interesting, look at th-"

"U.S. power concentrated by wealthy under a near-totalitarian government."

Aww, now I'm sad.

Let's get the scientists working on the tube technology.

LasersHurt: "U.S. power concentrated by wealthy under a near-totalitarian government."

Eisenhower was not in the Third Grade in 1962.


Actually, the changing face of futurism is pretty interesting. Roughly the same kinds of predictions have been made, in general, since the Industrial Revolution, and only the forms have changed.

It's interesting what people have guessed correctly (the internet, space travel), and what they've guessed wrong (flying cars and floating houses, jumpsuits, jetpacks, pill food), but it's also just interesting that in over a century most of the guesses have stayed largely the same. Everybody wants to fly, and apparently most people are sick of cooking.

Vindication at last for the 500 scientists taken from their families and forced to live underground since 1962 and work ceaselessly on Project GoGurt

Surprise! We have a black president and he wasn't even born in America and he worships a moon god called "Allah"!

SockMonkeyHolocaust: he worships a moon god called "Allah"!

Hush now! That's a sekrit.

Savage Belief: It's too bad physics and reality greed and quashing of imaginative thought has not allowed any of those predictions to come true.

Imagination doesn't move mass. You have to build and power and maintain your devices. If you can barely build them, well...

skinink: I wonder if any scientists would have predicted that by 2012 porn would be basically free and easy to get.

Well, yes and no. The sticking point is that, way back when, few futurists described "porn" in any explicit way in their predictions. But, for instance, Bellamy's 1887 book predicted that by 2000 most people would receive all manner of culture at home through a cable telephone network. If they'd realized how blase we would publically be about porn by now, they would have figured it would be included.

A number of contemporaries imagined that glass or metal tubes would be used to multiply and reflect cultural events, live or recorded (as lithographs, photographs, etc), to people's homes, where they would be reconstituted by speakers and lenses. They also imagined books that could turn to the right page when you told them what you wanted to read about.

On the other hand, they predicted that diseases would be cured painlessly through electric shocks and that the world would be divided between totalitarian dictatorships and socialist utopias. Bellamy predicted credit cards but said that money would be doled out entirely by the government on an egalitarian basis.

We do eat paste from tubes.

Kalles Creamed Smoked Roe: It's IKEAlishious!

Rich's prediction for 2062: "We will have a cashless society and use digital money stored on an all-purpose device that fits in your pocket."

Something around the size of a card, that you could use to debit your account, or perhaps draw on a line of credit to pay for things. Some amazing futuristic device like that.

emersonbiggins: 1nsanilicious: emersonbiggins: 1nsanilicious: phrawgh: Oddly, subby's mom was eating a pasty substance from a tube last evening.

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If your stuff comes out like paste, you should go see a doctor.

Flax-colored globules are fine, though, right?

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You know I was going to add the line "but chunky is still considered normal" but thought better of it when I remembered I was posting on Fark.

/ever notice how chunky girl's thighs and butt looks like hail damage?

Maybe... I might need some visual aids as a reminder, though.



HTH

The average breast side has increased from an A cup in 1962 to a large C in 2012. No one predicted that.