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Title: What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008? (Nov, 1968) Post by: dystopia on March 24, 2008, 06:42:23 PM 40 Years in the Future http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/24/what-will-life-be-like-in-the-year-2008/ Quote 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. (more...) Title: Re: What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008? (Nov, 1968) Post by: Aske on March 24, 2008, 06:46:13 PM still 8 months away. it see it all happening
Title: Re: What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008? (Nov, 1968) Post by: Fuzzy on March 24, 2008, 06:47:20 PM Quote Homes in Mi’s 80th year are practically self-maintaining. Electrostatic precipitators clean the air and climatizers maintain the temperature and humidity at optimum levels. Robots are available to do housework and other simple chores. Where does Whiskey get one of those robots? He's got a need now. Title: Re: What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008? (Nov, 1968) Post by: Uisce Beatha on March 24, 2008, 07:00:36 PM (http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/05/rosie.jpg)
Title: Re: What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008? (Nov, 1968) Post by: spacey on March 24, 2008, 07:00:54 PM (http://yankees-chick.com/conan.jpg)
Title: Re: What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008? (Nov, 1968) Post by: Clive on March 24, 2008, 07:16:48 PM (http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/05/rosie.jpg) Is it just me, or is she kinda hot?Title: Re: What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008? (Nov, 1968) Post by: 1puttpar on March 24, 2008, 07:19:13 PM "Everyone is able to use his full mental potential."
Like that will ever happen. Title: Re: What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008? (Nov, 1968) Post by: Uisce Beatha on March 24, 2008, 07:19:40 PM Is it just me, or is she kinda hot? I think she's Filipino. Title: Re: What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008? (Nov, 1968) Post by: Fuzzy on March 24, 2008, 07:26:56 PM "Everyone is able to use his full mental potential." Like that will ever happen. I really hope that prediction has not come true. I'd hate to think this is all we got. Title: Re: What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008? (Nov, 1968) Post by: Uisce Beatha on March 24, 2008, 07:27:57 PM "Everyone is able to use his full mental potential." Like that will ever happen. I really hope that prediction has not come true. I'd hate to think this is all we got. *fudge* full mental potential. Fuzzmental potential ftw. Title: Re: What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008? (Nov, 1968) Post by: gleek on March 24, 2008, 07:31:48 PM (http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/05/rosie.jpg) Is it just me, or is she kinda hot?Title: Re: What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008? (Nov, 1968) Post by: birdymaker on March 24, 2008, 07:34:36 PM "Everyone is able to use his full mental potential." Like that will ever happen. I really hope that prediction has not come true. I'd hate to think this is all we got. :sad3: Title: Re: What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008? (Nov, 1968) Post by: gleek on March 24, 2008, 08:04:49 PM "Everyone is able to use his full mental potential." Like that will ever happen. I really hope that prediction has not come true. I'd hate to think this is all we got. Well, that article certainly makes mankind look like underachievers. Title: Re: What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008? (Nov, 1968) Post by: Aske on March 24, 2008, 08:15:37 PM "Everyone is able to use his full mental potential." Like that will ever happen. I really hope that prediction has not come true. I'd hate to think this is all we got. Well, that article certainly makes mankind look like underachievers. don't worry, it gets better by 2505 dupu6Y1DIJ4 NSFW [sm_devil] Title: Re: What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008? (Nov, 1968) Post by: Fuzzy on March 25, 2008, 05:47:51 AM "Everyone is able to use his full mental potential." Like that will ever happen. I really hope that prediction has not come true. I'd hate to think this is all we got. *fudge* full mental potential. Fuzzmental potential ftw. [sm_drink] [sm_thankyou] Title: Re: What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008? (Nov, 1968) Post by: Dunk on March 25, 2008, 04:45:08 PM Very cool Dys! I'll pass that one around.
Title: Re: What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008? (Nov, 1968) Post by: tdcoly on March 26, 2008, 04:12:25 PM Thanks one hell of a lot, Dys. My father bought Mechanics Illustrated and Popular Science every single week. I grew up on this *feces* (mid to late fifties). Now, I'm going to have to go through EVERY page of this blog.
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