I found this Modern Mechanix article on another site:
What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008? (Nov, 1968)
Guess we aren't there, yet.
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Life in 2008 (as seen from 1968)
AJLaFleche
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Posted: Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 03:07 AM UTC
Posted: Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 03:32 AM UTC
They were pretty close on this bit...
Thanks for sharing Al.
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Computers also handle travel reservations, relay telephone messages, keep track of birthdays and anniversaries, compute taxes and even figure the monthly bills for electricity, water, telephone and other utilities. Not every family has its private computer. Many families reserve time on a city or regional computer to serve their needs. The machine tallies up its own services and submits a bill, just as it does with other utilities.
Money has all but disappeared. Employers deposit salary checks directly into their employees’ accounts. Credit cards are used for paying all bills. Each time you buy something, the card’s number is fed into the store’s computer station. A master computer then deducts the charge from your bank balance.
Thanks for sharing Al.
Posted: Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 03:35 AM UTC
Great find and a really interesting read.
Interesting how some aspects of the article we would still regard as futuristic now, and some predictions would now be regarded as "old news", and have already been superceeded.
Intelligence pills?,,,Good to see them generally available, but I think that maybe the formula got reversed somehow over the last 4 decades.
Nige
Interesting how some aspects of the article we would still regard as futuristic now, and some predictions would now be regarded as "old news", and have already been superceeded.
Intelligence pills?,,,Good to see them generally available, but I think that maybe the formula got reversed somehow over the last 4 decades.
Nige
bigford
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Posted: Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 10:27 AM UTC
took me four hours to go 80 miles today
Posted: Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 11:13 PM UTC
Recent research has shown that the average speed when travelling around London was quicker with a horse and cart than in a car!
Thats what I call progress
Nige
Thats what I call progress
Nige
goldenpony
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Posted: Friday, April 25, 2008 - 12:49 AM UTC
I find it so interesting to read those types of articles. Some of the predictions are right on and others are so far off. They sure did get the home computer just about right. But the national traffic computer controlling cars on a plastic highway is a little way off.
Posted: Friday, April 25, 2008 - 02:09 AM UTC
Still waiting to get to work in my personal helicopter ... but I'll live without the kitchen-foil jumpsuit.