Right! When I was a kid, we had these picture-books about "15 years into the future". That was 25 years ago unfortunately, and zero of the predictions came true. Will be the same with this nonsense here.
What, you don't have massive airplanes, moving sidewalks and 200 floor buildings in your neighbourhood? Oh wait, neither do I, it's just my medication... no wonder I'm standing still on the street muttering nonsense to passerbys.
Oh, and everyone is white in those books too.
We've got the massive airplanes and the moving sidewalks here in Toronto, but no 200 floor buildings yet. The CN Tower is a mere 147 storeys tall.
The CN Tower is a mere 147 storeys tall.
Looks like it has maybe half a dozen floors to me, but I've never been there. Given that most buildings of that size have floors that are about 15 feet high, it is about as tall as a 120 story building.
exactly what I thought, reminds me of those "we'll all be swallowing Atomic Pills" and "flying" cars to work. Seriously, can we maybe get some actual sci-fi authors to weigh in? At least they extrapolate in an entertaining manner, this was like reading a newspaper insert from 1950. - HEX
Indeed. That advantage of the (not so many) good SciFi authors is that they do not try to sell the same tired old nonsense over and over again. Or at least try to put quite a bit of interesting spin on it.
I remember reading Pop Sci back in the day and it said we'd have a man on Mars by now... 2005 to be exact.
That's when I lost all hope to become the first man on Mars because I'd have just graduated high school and wouldn't have nearly enough tome for training...
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Right! When I was a kid, we had these picture-books about "15 years into the future". That was 25 years ago unfortunately, and zero of the predictions came true. Will be the same with this nonsense here.
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What, you don't have massive airplanes, moving sidewalks and 200 floor buildings in your neighbourhood? Oh wait, neither do I, it's just my medication ... no wonder I'm standing still on the street muttering nonsense to passerbys.
Oh, and everyone is white in those books too.
We've got the massive airplanes and the moving sidewalks here in Toronto, but no 200 floor buildings yet. The CN Tower is a mere 147 storeys tall.
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I love Canada, but you guys up north spell some words funny!
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Nah, it's just camperdave who writes like that.
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Looks like it has maybe half a dozen floors to me, but I've never been there. Given that most buildings of that size have floors that are about 15 feet high, it is about as tall as a 120 story building.
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Indeed. That advantage of the (not so many) good SciFi authors is that they do not try to sell the same tired old nonsense over and over again. Or at least try to put quite a bit of interesting spin on it.
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This list is fascinating. What it reveals is really what people wanted and hoped for and hence what their problems actually where.
Some are also fascinatingly accurate. For example freight is primarily carried by ship today, not plane. On passengers total fail though.
Others are fascinatingly wrong. For example, a good horse costs still about the same as a good car.
#23 seems to be mostly true for the US, but in Europe is not nearly accurate.
#17 is fascinating in that it accurately predicts there will still be