What Will Life Be Like In 2008?

tblake writes "Back in 1968, Modern Mechanix mused what life would be like in 40 years. Some things they came pretty close on: 'Money has all but disappeared. Employers deposit salary checks directly into their employees' accounts. Credit cards are used for paying all bills. Each time you buy something, the card's number is fed into the store's computer station. A master computer then deducts the charge from your bank balance.' Some things are way off: 'The car accelerates to 150 mph in the city's suburbs, then hits 250 mph in less built-up areas, gliding over the smooth plastic road. You whiz past a string of cities, many of them covered by the new domes that keep them evenly climatized year round.' And some things are sorta right: 'TV screens cover an entire wall in most homes and show most subjects other than straight text matter in color and three dimensions. In addition to programmed TV and the multiplicity of commercial fare, you can see top Broadway shows, hit movies and current nightclub acts for a nominal charge.'"

Comments

One big thing they missed

[LM741N]

That we would become the new Soviet Union in many ways.
No one ever saw that one coming.

Re:250 mph

[electrictroy]

Someone show me where in the Bill of Rights it says,

"Every person has the right to raid their neighbors' wallets, so said person can buy themselves a new heart, lung, or other organ."* I cannot lay my hand on that part of the Constitution. It must be there since everyone claims they have that right, but I cannot locate it?

Thanks. ;-)

* [IMHO this is theft of labor... making someone else work to pay your bills. Also known as slavery (reference Rome where slaves earned money & then handed it over to their masters). Nobody has a right to enslave another & take the other's wages earned, just so he/she can buy a new organ.]