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

Mechanix Illustrated ^ | November 1968 | James R. Berry

[Always Right]

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.

[firebrand]

Amazing predictions! I notice that two things people like to do—drive and cook—have not yet become automated to the degree predicted, though.

[firebrand]

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

This is the prediction for November 2008. Give us time.

[mkjessup]

One thing the computer will not do is tell me when I have been on it too long in the morning and the pancakes are burning.

You just don't have the right USB accessories for your system.

Keep checking 'www.crazypc.com' for new products, here's one I installed:




Cigarette lighter AND cup holder, no PC should be without it.

[Gideon7]

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.

[5Madman2]

Check out the Movie “Idiocracy”

Rude and crude, but it tells a more likely story given what we are dealing with now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy