Entertainment For Lively Minds
In The Year 2525...
Posted by Nick_Setchfield on 22 November 2009 - 3:50pm.
I've just stumbled across this wonderful site dedicated to past visions of the future:
There's something so melancholy about this kind of thing - all those '30s Buck Rogers rocketship dreams and gleaming '60s space age utopias that never came to pass.
How did you imagine the future would be?
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Usual stuff...
... all very 1970's: a mix of "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "Space 1999" Moonbase with everyone wearing pajamas all day,and flying to work with personal rocket packs.
Hoped, rather than expected that we'd have personal Robots too.
Never thought about Mobile Phones or Personal Computers - computers were those huge walls of twinkling lights with a Tape machine on the front.
Excellent link - ta
I'm disappointed that the mobile phone seems to have won out over the wristwatch communicator.
My disposable tin foil clothes don't seem to fit me properly either.
I'm sorry, I don't have time to reply to this thread
I have to take my anti-gravity shoes in for a service, and the ruddy teleporter seems to be on the blink. I'll have to ask the robot to get it fixed while I hover-car over to the cobblers.