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What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008? (from 1968 magazine article)
Mechanix Illustrated ^
| November 1968
| James R. Berry
Posted on 03/26/2008 7:09:42 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Drew68
Interesting they pegged the population at 350 million. This was in 1968, BEFORE ABORTION.
We’d be around 350 million right now if we didn’t have abortion.
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posted on
03/26/2008 7:42:15 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: WOSG; r-q-tek86; M1911A1
You guys are FUNNY!
I will send M1911A1 out to GET a roomba...or, to go FETCH THAT ROBOT—————>>>>>>>
LOL!!!
(HE’S my robot!)
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posted on
03/26/2008 7:42:16 PM PDT
by
M0sby
(((PROUD WIFE of MSgt Edwards USMC)))
To: motoman; Paleo Conservative
“Gee! I wonder where the missing 50 million people went?”
Abortions?
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posted on
03/26/2008 7:42:56 PM PDT
by
Radix
(How come they call people "Morons" when they do not know as much? Shouldn't they be called "Lessons?)
To: A_perfect_lady
More like Big Brother meets Sharia.
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posted on
03/26/2008 7:43:19 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: LukeL
Hovercrafts! They promised us all hovercrafts!
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posted on
03/26/2008 7:43:48 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: Drew68
I like how they predicted that you'll commute 300 miles to work for no good reason at all and do your tasks through computers remotely with people hundreds of miles away as if they were right next to you.
A stupid, irrational, self-defeating, senseless notion that's entirely true today.
To: Secret Agent Man
Hovercrafts! They promised us all hovercrafts!Are they filled with eels?
47
posted on
03/26/2008 7:45:57 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(11+7+15=3 Heismans)
To: martin_fierro
Ninety minutes after leaving your home, you slide beneath the dome of your destination city. Well your pic is *still* appropriate.
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posted on
03/26/2008 7:46:28 PM PDT
by
Ezekiel
To: A message
Mostly misses. This was the best. >The intelligence pill is another 21st century commodity.
Hillary has been hoarding them.
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posted on
03/26/2008 7:46:33 PM PDT
by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: Drew68
As the Governor of NY has a quick tryst, its off to the State house in our sleek jet powered limo!
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posted on
03/26/2008 7:47:27 PM PDT
by
jaz.357
(When you throw mud, you lose ground.)
To: new cruelty; MarkeyD
To: Ezekiel
2008 transportation is among the most important factors keeping the economy running smoothly.Bwahaha!
To: Drew68
Great Post!
Actually, very predictive based on the technology of the late 1960’s:
No small scale computers; no internet; no GPS; no real manpower savings based on the “massive” IBM computers of the day.
I’m sending this article to many of my older friends!
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posted on
03/26/2008 7:51:35 PM PDT
by
aShepard
To: Drew68
To: Drew68
He got close though You're right. I missed that line. I take back my statement.
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posted on
03/26/2008 7:53:32 PM PDT
by
386wt
(Be free and don't die!)
To: The KG9 Kid
I like how they predicted that you'll commute 300 miles to work for no good reason at all and do your tasks through computers remotely with people hundreds of miles away as if they were right next to you. I caught that as well. I guess we'll need a reason for those air-cushoned cars and plastic highways.
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posted on
03/26/2008 7:53:45 PM PDT
by
Drew68
To: Drew68
Pushing combinations of buttons? Missed predicting the point and click mouse.
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posted on
03/26/2008 7:53:55 PM PDT
by
Kirkwood
(Ask me again tomorrow.)
To: Drew68
While city life in 2008 has changed greatly, the farm has altered even more. Farmers are business executives running operations as automated as factories. 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. Who knew we would turn back to slavery with illegal aliens?
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posted on
03/26/2008 7:55:26 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: 386wt
You're right. I missed that line. I take back my statement. The only difference is that the writer predicted we'd be surfing the internet from our TVs. Ironic considering now people watch TV shows from their computer screens.
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posted on
03/26/2008 7:55:42 PM PDT
by
Drew68
To: MarkeyD
I want my flying car! Hell no!!
98% of the people (and that's a low estimate) can't even manage a car that operates in 2 dimensions!!!! And you want to add a third.
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posted on
03/26/2008 7:55:42 PM PDT
by
qam1
(There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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