What will life be like in the year 2000? (amusing look back at 1961)

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[ScottFromSpokane]

Oooo...glamour undies!

[nhoward14]

and a beautiful bust!

[swilhelm73]

I want my flying car gosh darn it! How else can you get to the spaceport on time.

[KJacob]

Yeah the ad is pretty cool. Rather risque for the early 60's.

[gitmo]

At work, Dad will operate on a 24 hour week.

And that's just on Monday.

Some of the predictions were surprisingly correct.

[Mears]

I like the Man Zan ads myself!!!!!!

[firebrand]

This sounds as if it was put together by several people, some up on the latest technology and some on the latest comic books.

[annyokie]

Screw the flying cars. Where's my robot maid?

[lowbridge]

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.

You'll have wall-to-wall global TV, an indoor swimming pool, TV-telephones and room-to-room TV. 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.

Amazingly they did get somethings right, or came terribly close.

Rocket belts will increase a man's stride to 30 feet,

Unfortunately my rocket belt is at the shop for repairs.

[RckyRaCoCo]

[Normal4me]

They lied...

[rbg81]

Well, some of those are pretty close--but even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Futurists have tended to be notoriously wrong over the years. In 1961, I bet they never imagined that the "machines that talk to each other" would be a means for accessing unlimited porn (along with the news). And that everyone would be constantly bombarded by ads for pen#s enlargement.

[U S Army EOD]

Actually, when you view the movie 2001, we are quite a bit further advanced than the movie predicted, especially in communications and computers. We could have done the space travel they showed in the movie had we been willing to spend the money. We have the technology to do everything they did.

[mikrofon]

There will be no common colds, cancer, tooth decay or mental illness.

They apparently didn't foresee the rise of Liberalism...

[lowbridge]

I want my flying car gosh darn it! How else can you get to the spaceport on time.

Should have taken public transportation like the rest of us.

[Snickersnee]

Rather risque for the early 60's.

Well, it is Australia....

[OSHA]

Buy the undies in the ad and parade around the house. Hubby will sell that nice plane and buy you a robot!

[lowbridge]

And that everyone would be constantly bombarded by ads for pen#s enlargement.

Yeah. I'd rather be bombarded by ads for Glamour Undies.

[U S Army EOD]

If I answered all the adds for pen#s enlargement I get, we could use it to go to the moon on.