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What's Always Next?

Posted by timothy on from the more-frustration dept.

bettiwettiwoo writes "In its 'What's Next' issue, Time has a charmingly silly piece called What's Always Next? , in which is provided '[a] sampling of the future that wasn't': things that have been predicted since day dot, but have somehow never materialized. The examples they give are: videophones; moon colonies; food in pills; cars that drive themselves; jet packs; and moving sidewalks. ... There are, after all, so many and varied things -- ranging from the very serious to the down-right silly -- that are predicted time and again, yet seem curiously absent in our daily lives. Examples: global catastrophies of the Armageddon kind (be they population overload, total environmental disasters, plagues, asteroids, or nuclear wars); a secure and bug-free Windows; the end of Madonna's singing career (her 'acting' career was, I believe, still-born)." So what are you waiting for?

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  1. who cares ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    whoi the fuck cares about this shit ?
    the taliban will soon rid the world of your infamous civilizaiton !

  2. My Prediction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I predict this website will be crushed under the weight of its own self-importance by the year 2004. The great AC has spoken!!

  3. Laziness, a sign of Hunger ... Eat Snikers! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Get off ur butt!

  4. Brain Drain at Slashdot. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Webpages are supposed to be more up to date with technology news. In other words, way ahead of print magazines.

    When Slashdot starts to reprint a print magazine article, you know Slashdot is having a brain drain.

    Just end it now. No point keeping a braindead entity on life support. It's got no brain for crying out loud! Pull the plug!

  5. Re:Um, the big one? by EvilTwinSkippy · · Score: 0, Troll
    Ask greenpeace the next time they play footsies with a nuclear waste shipment. Let's face it, we have an entire generation of people that sheepishly believe whatever anti-nuke rhetoric someone can spew with a straight face. Is nuclear power dangerous: yes. Any more dangerous than other forms of industrial production? Not really.

    The only people suffering long-term health problems from Hirosima, Nagasaki, and Chernobyl are/were those who where younger than 4 years old at the time of radiation exposure. Most of the long term illnesses, even in those cases, where treatable forms of thyroid cancer. Compare that to the hundreds of thousands killed or blinded by the Union Carbide accident in Bhopal, India.

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