Broken Promises of the Future - Page 4

Ghoulish Delight · 08-09-2005, 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

For the forest to be green, each leaf must be green....so if you want everyone to wear shiny jumpsuits, you'll have to get the ball rolling yourself.

No, no, no. They must be issued by the benevolant socialist world government. Shiny jumpsuits, for the good of all people.

Not Afraid · 08-09-2005, 11:27 AM

I think that, instead of shiney jumpsuits, we got school uniforms.

flippyshark · 08-09-2005, 12:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

I saw half of Back to the Future II the other night, and we realized that 2015 is, well, only 10 years away.

So don't worry, we'll have self-fitting/self-drying clothes, hover boards, instant food hydration, dust-repellant paper (forgot that one, didn't you?) AND flying cars really soon.

Oh, and fax machines all over the house.

The thing I'm really looking forward to from that particular future is the release of JAWS 19. ("This time it's REALLY personal") This means that there will have to be fifteen more JAWS movies in the next decade. They better get busy. (Sadly, no matter how terrible they all are, I'd be first in line.)

dsnylndmom · 08-09-2005, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Not Afraid

I think I saw a picture of a film strip contraption once. I was copied by my teacher on a ditto machine.

God I LOVED that smell!

Oh GOD me too!! That and there was one type of marker that always smelled so good, not the ones that were fruity just a marker smell! Damn this swiss cheese memory of mine what were they called!!

mousepod · 08-09-2005, 01:04 PM

I know that €uro's OP was referring to the cool 50's and early 60's vision of the future, with rayguns and flying cars and all, but my early sci-fi experience was with the dystopian ideas of Logan's Run, Silent Running and J.G. Ballard. So while I'm sad that space flight isn't like jumping on a plane like in 2001:ASO, I'm also glad that I made it past 30 and the only Carousel I've been to is in a Disney Park...

Name · 08-09-2005, 01:11 PM

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We've come close, I suppose, with the palm pilot, taser, and cell phone, but they don't look as nifty, nor make the same cool sounds.

You've not hear the people talking on the Nextel Walkie Talkies?

But now that i think about it, I don't remember really expecting anything outrageous by this time. Looking around though, I see many places that we have stepped backwards and revisted technologies of the past, for example, watched some PBS show where there are folks making full blown houses out of bales of hay. Almost nostalgic to the pyramid days, except those were mud and straw mixture. But I don't remember ever having a thought that I would have such a powerful computer sitting next to me in my own home, or that I would be able to walk around anywhere and be reachable by phone at anytime(almost).

Ghoulish Delight · 08-09-2005, 01:24 PM

How about the fact that medical diagnostic tools remincent of tricorders are coming very close to being reality. The technology to gather data about what lies beneath your skin by waving a device over it exists. Now it's just a matter of finding meaningful interpretations of that data.

Motorboat Cruiser · 08-09-2005, 04:25 PM

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You've not hear the people talking on the Nextel Walkie Talkies?

Sure. Used to have one, in fact. I was including that type of device in the cell phone catagory but the more I think about it, the Nextel two-way radios are probably closer to the communicator than a cell phone.

innerSpaceman · 08-09-2005, 05:15 PM

Moving sidewalks is so broken of a future promise that they've even removed it from the "new" Space Mountain.

As for me, I was certain personal space travel would be available by now.

More important, and not to kill the buzz of this lighthearted thread ... but growing up in the 60's I was sure that 2005 would see no more racism, no more misogny, no more homophobia, no more religion and no more war.

I'm really rather disappointed.

€uroMeinke · 08-09-2005, 06:33 PM

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Originally Posted by mousepod

I know that €uro's OP was referring to the cool 50's and early 60's vision of the future, with rayguns and flying cars and all, but my early sci-fi experience was with the dystopian ideas of Logan's Run, Silent Running and J.G. Ballard. So while I'm sad that space flight isn't like jumping on a plane like in 2001:ASO, I'm also glad that I made it past 30 and the only Carousel I've been to is in a Disney Park...

Nah, I'm looking at all the fears and promises - 1984 passed and there's no Big Brother watching my every move (Now it's just my employer

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08-09-2005, 11:27 AM	#32
Not Afraid HI! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 17,108	I think that, instead of shiney jumpsuits, we got school uniforms.
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mousepod You broke your Ramadar! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 4,635	I know that €uro's OP was referring to the cool 50's and early 60's vision of the future, with rayguns and flying cars and all, but my early sci-fi experience was with the dystopian ideas of Logan's Run, Silent Running and J.G. Ballard. So while I'm sad that space flight isn't like jumping on a plane like in 2001:ASO, I'm also glad that I made it past 30 and the only Carousel I've been to is in a Disney Park... __________________ "Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly" - Walt Disney
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Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	How about the fact that medical diagnostic tools remincent of tricorders are coming very close to being reality. The technology to gather data about what lies beneath your skin by waving a device over it exists. Now it's just a matter of finding meaningful interpretations of that data. __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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08-09-2005, 05:15 PM	#39
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	Moving sidewalks is so broken of a future promise that they've even removed it from the "new" Space Mountain. As for me, I was certain personal space travel would be available by now. More important, and not to kill the buzz of this lighthearted thread ... but growing up in the 60's I was sure that 2005 would see no more racism, no more misogny, no more homophobia, no more religion and no more war. I'm really rather disappointed.
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