Monday, November 23, 2009

"Futurists" are full of crap

Best guesses of the future, circa 1958. They were big on tubes back then.

This video is 8:47 seconds of pure fun to watch.

10 comments:

Dan from Madison said...

Awesome video. I did see a thing or two they were right on - teleconferencing for instance.

OH MAN radiant heat in the roads, wouldn't that be a dream up here in Wisconsin. Bad for the salt vendors though.

Paul said...

With out the trillion dollar, borrow from the Chinese to buy clunkers and make sure Banksters can make their call girl payments, Barry Soetoto, GW, Hank 'Tree Hugger' Paulson and most Democrats said that unemployment would NOT go over 8.0 percent.

Yeah, futurists suck. Especially those that can force you to do their bidding like some sort of finger snapping commissars.

Anyways, the head of the Chicago Federal Reserve Printing Press said yesterday (?) that unemployment would 'level off, nation wide at 10.5 by spring' and then get reduced.

So, we have that going for us, which is nice. /sarc

Lou Minatti said...

Nothing about commercial air travel. How could they miss this?

w said...

Here is a bulletin: In the future there will be less free time.

Anonymous said...

The Minneapolis I-35W bridge had potassium acetate sprinklers:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/13/technology/how-it-works-black-ice-wise-bridge-repelling-the-foe-before-it-forms.html

With all that automation, it never occurred to them that we might get so fat.

Bill in NC said...

They got GPS right as well.

Michael Ryan said...

Meet George Jetson...

Anonymous said...

Ray Kurzweil can sound like a nut-job sometimes.

Noodles said...

THANKS for posting that. 9 minutes of pure joy!

amigauser said...

HI

not really a response to the video but:-


i loged on to get your reponse to climate gate, not even "i told you so"

Has your media been covering it up like ours (England) has?

a BBC journalist had the emails for 6 weeks with out doing anything with it, and now only mentions it in on a blog

Do you think they would have covered up emails proving George w. Bsh is Gay?