[ExI] Predictions for 2008 from 1968

John Winters ferox314 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 26 20:09:18 UTC 2008


On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:01 AM, Emlyn <emlynoregan at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/24/what-will-life-be-like-in-the-year-2008/
>
> Really, a pretty damned good shot with a lot of those predictions. And
> the stuff thats wrong, well, in a lot of cases it damns us more than
> damns the writer. Most of it should exist. Why doesn't it? We seem to
> have spent decades on frippery, as far as I can see. Great technology,
> pity about the application...

There's a great blog called Paleo-Future [http://www.paleofuture.com/]
which is devoted entirely to illustrating past predictions of what
life what be like today.

J



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