Life in 2008 as predicted in 1968

[jay clock]

This article was written 40 years ago today. A good read and quite a few accurate prophesies. It features 18 November 2008.

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008...rty_years_future_0.jpg&Qiv=thumbs&Qis=XL#qdig

 

[02GF74]

The average work day is about four hours. LOL!!! That's about right, the other 4 are spent on titernet! LOL

Interesting prediction but quite a few are way out.

 

[dodgy]

Quite a few are spot on, conceptually anyway. They kind of predicted the Internet.

 

[col]

They thought we would be further than we are going on space 1999.

 

[johnnyh]

bah! no mention of hover bikes!

 

[jay clock]

No mention of indexed gearing either

 

[Kirstie]

Funny. Despite all the technological advances , apparently women are still at home preparing 'menus' for the week.

 

[yenrod]

Funny. Despite all the technological advances , apparently women are still at home preparing 'menus' for the week.

Could make a cheap jibe about being in the pub drinking lagerlagerlagerlager but 'a won't !

 

[Crackle]

'68. If you hadn't told me, I'd have said that was a 50's vision but then again it is slightly more advanced I suppose.

 

[Mr Phoebus]

No mention of Snickers, either.

 

[Over The Hill]

Probably got it closer than we could about 40 years from now. More hits than misses and some things are spot on.

Strange to think that at the time of writing so long ago man was just about to land on the moon.

 

[palinurus]

Where's my flippin' robot.

 

[Night Train]

Funny. Despite all the technological advances , apparently women are still at home preparing 'menus' for the week.

I've just finished reading a 1951 Arthur C Clarke, The Sands Of Mars. It is set over 200 years in the future and the main character, a writer/journalist is still using a typewriter and carbon paper and there are still typing pools full of women producing copy. Women are still house wives or secretaries in 2150!

 

[col]

I've just finished reading a 1951 Arthur C Clarke, The Sands Of Mars. It is set over 200 years in the future and the main character, a writer/journalist is still using a typewriter and carbon paper and there are still typing pools full of women producing copy. Women are still house wives or secretaries in 2150!

Well you cant change thousands of years of evolution

It s a joke before i get attacked

 

[Tetedelacourse]

Money has all but disappeared. Tell me about it.