What will life be like in 2008?

[tekta]

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/24/what-wil...

IT’S 8 a.m., Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008, and you are headed for a business appointment 300 mi. away. You slide into your sleek, two-passenger air-cushion car, press a sequence of buttons and the national traffic computer notes your destination, figures out the current traffic situation and signals your car to slide out of the garage. Hands free, you sit back and begin to read the morning paper—which is flashed on a flat TV screen over the car’s dashboard. Tapping a button changes the page.....

[Mc Lovin]

its like a snap shot of my morning....

[princeperch]

I got the bus to work. It was ten minutes late.

[Fivepercent]

tekta said:

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/24/what-wil...

IT’S 8 a.m., Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008, and you are headed for a business appointment 300 mi. away. You slide into your sleek, two-passenger air-cushion car, press a sequence of buttons and the national traffic computer notes your destination, figures out the current traffic situation and signals your car to slide out of the garage. Hands free, you sit back and begin to read the morning paper—which is flashed on a flat TV screen over the car’s dashboard. Tapping a button changes the page.....

Considering that was 40 years ago they got a lot right.
And we still have till November for the things they predicted that we don't have yet.

[Famous Graham]

Yeah, there is quite a lot of well predicted stuff there. The original author seems to be reasonably conservative compared to other "flying car and living on the moon" futurists of the time.

[Timmy35]

Famous Graham said:

Yeah, there is quite a lot of well predicted stuff there. The original author seems to be reasonably conservative compared to other "flying car and living on the moon" futurists of the time.

No mention of sex-bots though?

[Gad-Westy]

Fivepercent said:

tekta said:

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/24/what-wil...

IT’S 8 a.m., Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008, and you are headed for a business appointment 300 mi. away. You slide into your sleek, two-passenger air-cushion car, press a sequence of buttons and the national traffic computer notes your destination, figures out the current traffic situation and signals your car to slide out of the garage. Hands free, you sit back and begin to read the morning paper—which is flashed on a flat TV screen over the car’s dashboard. Tapping a button changes the page.....

Considering that was 40 years ago they got a lot right.
And we still have till November for the things they predicted that we don't have yet.

They better get cracking on those city domes and plastic roads.

[anonymous-user]

Nobody predicted getting free nudy ladies on teh internez though.

[rhinochopig]

El stovey said:

Nobody predicted getting free nudy ladies on teh internez though.

If they had, where would the surprise be?

[NDA]

Timmy35 said:

No mention of sex-bots though?

Yeah, I immediately thought that too. I reckon we'll be using Syborgs (a tiny chrome-plated machine that looks like a magical pig with marital aids stuck all over it).

(With apologies to Frank...)

[Fivepercent]

NDA said:

Timmy35 said:

No mention of sex-bots though?

Yeah, I immediately thought that too. I reckon we'll be using Syborgs (a tiny chrome-plated machine that looks like a magical pig with marital aids stuck all over it).

(With apologies to Frank...)

The Sybian is pretty much there.

[rhinochopig]

Fivepercent said:

NDA said:

Timmy35 said:

No mention of sex-bots though?

Yeah, I immediately thought that too. I reckon we'll be using Syborgs (a tiny chrome-plated machine that looks like a magical pig with marital aids stuck all over it).

(With apologies to Frank...)

The Sybian is pretty much there.

I had to google that...it looks like the offspring from a foreman grill and BBQ.

Edited by rhinochopig on Thursday 18th September 09:59

[PhilLL]

Pretty accurate I think, all told.

Why on earth they thought we might have/need domed cities though is beyond me.

[Chris71]

On the whole I think it's reasonably accurate - if a little optimisitc in places. Various companies certainly have been trialling computer control of the traffic, some of us do live on microwaved frozen food, most TVs are flatscreen.

Hmm - underwater vacations? Domed cities? Maybe we've still got a way to go.

Roll on global warming!

[ASBO]

rhinochopig said:

Fivepercent said:

NDA said:

Timmy35 said:

No mention of sex-bots though?

Yeah, I immediately thought that too. I reckon we'll be using Syborgs (a tiny chrome-plated machine that looks like a magical pig with marital aids stuck all over it).

(With apologies to Frank...)

The Sybian is pretty much there.

I had to google that...it looks like the offspring from a foreman grill and BBQ.

Edited by rhinochopig on Thursday 18th September 09:59

Where the hell have you been for the last ten years?

Everyone's got one

[Timmy35]

PhilLL said:

Pretty accurate I think, all told.

Why on earth they thought we might have/need domed cities though is beyond me.

The crazy bit is where he accelerates to 150mph without receiving 12 points a £5,000 fine and a 6m ban. ( and surely there'd be an army of robot traffic wardens )

[Gylen]

article said:

Suddenly your TV phone buzzes. A business associate wants a sketch of a new kind of impeller your firm is putting out for sports boats.

Hmm, this seems out of place somehow. I would have thought that free time would be spent 'galaxy surfing' or 'Quasar riding'. Sports boats seem somehow anachronistic with the rest of the article.

[rhinochopig]

ASBO said:

rhinochopig said:

Fivepercent said:

NDA said:

Timmy35 said:

No mention of sex-bots though?

Yeah, I immediately thought that too. I reckon we'll be using Syborgs (a tiny chrome-plated machine that looks like a magical pig with marital aids stuck all over it).

(With apologies to Frank...)

The Sybian is pretty much there.

I had to google that...it looks like the offspring from a foreman grill and BBQ.

Edited by rhinochopig on Thursday 18th September 09:59

Where the hell have you been for the last ten years?

Everyone's got one

Married

[Fivepercent]

Chris71 said:

On the whole I think it's reasonably accurate - if a little optimisitc in places. Various companies certainly have been trialling computer control of the traffic, some of us do live on microwaved frozen food, most TVs are flatscreen.

Hmm - underwater vacations? Domed cities? Maybe we've still got a way to go.

Roll on global warming!

The "Domed Cities" could be things like Bluewater, Metro Centre etc.
And there are several underwater hotels. http://blog.hotelclub.com/top-five-underwater-hote...

[Timmy35]

rhinochopig said:

ASBO said:

rhinochopig said:

Fivepercent said:

NDA said:

Timmy35 said:

No mention of sex-bots though?

Yeah, I immediately thought that too. I reckon we'll be using Syborgs (a tiny chrome-plated machine that looks like a magical pig with marital aids stuck all over it).

(With apologies to Frank...)

The Sybian is pretty much there.

I had to google that...it looks like the offspring from a foreman grill and BBQ.

Edited by rhinochopig on Thursday 18th September 09:59

Where the hell have you been for the last ten years?

Everyone's got one

Married

I'm intrigued...I can't have a look as it's NSFW, but......these are real? Bumming robots already exist?