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

Mechanix Illustrated ^ | November 1968 | James R. Berry

[Drew68]

A few hits. A few misses. Those four hour work days will be nice! Maybe we'll have them by November.

[LukeL]

I still want a robot servant and raygun.

[the invisib1e hand]

Electrostatic precipitators

yeah. got to go get one of them at Home Depot.

[Hoplite]

Money has all but disappeared.

I still have my looks!

[gunnyg]

“it will be a world as strange to us as our time (1968) would be to the pilgrims.”

Yep—damn strange...

[Rome2000]

Those four hour work days will be nice!

If we weren't so busy paying for all of the socialist BS we would only have to work a 4 or 5 hour day.

Socialism in America is retarding growth, innovation, and quality of life.

[MarkeyD]

I want my flying car!

[Radix]

 

 

[A message]

Mostly misses. This was the best.

The intelligence pill is another 21st century commodity.

hahaha

[Paleo Conservative]

With the U.S. population having soared to 350 million, 2008 transportation is among the most important factors keeping the economy running smoothly.

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

[theymakemesick]

Sounds like this guy fantasized everything except for tree huggers, nanny-state government and nation crushing illegal immigration.

[Anti-Bubba182]

"..TV scanners monitor tractors and other equipment computer programmed to plow, harrow and harvest. Wires imbedded in the ground send control signals to the machines. Computers also keep track of yields-, fertilization, soil composition and other factors influencing crops. At the beginning of each year, a print-out tells the farmer what to plant where, how much to fertilize and how much yield he can expect..."

Close!

[386wt]

Missed Gore’s great invention, the internet.

[motoman]

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

The implication this this statement is hauntingly true...

[Domandred]

It left out the part about Dept of Ag paying farmers for not growing crops

[Ditto]

Where's my flying car? I want it.

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.

[rellimpank]

-—did a lot better than Paul Ehrlich -and he’s still on the lecture circuit—

[M0sby]

where’s my ROBOT???

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Smallpox and VD are no more. Antibiotics have wiped out all the germs. But there are drawbacks! Gas is 80 cents a gallon and a pack of cigarettes is a dollar and fifty cents!

[Drew68]

Missed Gore’s great invention, the internet.

He got close though,

"Besides school lessons, other educational material is available for TV viewing. 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."