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Predictions of the Future...From the 1960s

Posted by samzenpus on from the house-of-tomorrow dept.

kkleiner writes "Jetpacks, flying cars, death rays — the future isn't quite what the past hoped it would be. Of course, when predictions do come true it can be really shocking. Check out some of the more entertaining and eye-opening videos that show classic predictions from the 1960s. The Jet Age couldn't imagine the Age of Social Media clearly, but they got a few things right. And many more hilariously wrong."

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  1. funded by Monsanto by KiloByte · · Score: 5, Funny

    The House of the Future was funded by Monsanto who now is a scarily powerful biotech and genetically modified food conglomerate but who in the 1960s was all about plastics.

    So nothing really changed.

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    The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
  2. The online shopping one is really accurate by jez9999 · · Score: 4, Funny

    It shows the wife sitting at the console ordering her clothes, and then the husband paying for it at his console. Sounds about right.

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    == Jez ==
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    1. Re:The online shopping one is really accurate by nyctopterus · · Score: 2, Funny

      What the fuck is it with slashdotters and this endlessly sexist shit? It makes me wonder what sort of women you're a all hooked up with... then I remember: pretend ones.

  3. Internet predicted prior to Clarke by brokeninside · · Score: 3, Funny

    FTFA:

    [Clarke] recalled that EM Forster, in a 1909 short story The Machine Stops, "pictured our remote descendants as living in isolated cells, scarcely ever leaving them, but being able to establish instant TV contact with anyone, anywhere else on Earth." Are we there yet?

    Sounds close enough to me.