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Sci-Fi Writers of the Past Predict Life In 2012
cylonlover writes "As part of the L, Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future award in 1987, a group of science fiction luminaries put together a text 'time capsule' of their predictions about life in the far off year of 2012. Including such names as Orson Scott Card, Robert Silverberg, Jack Williamson, Algis Budrys and Frederik Pohl, it gives us an interesting glimpse into how those living in the age before smartphones, tablets, Wi-Fi and on-demand streaming episodes of Community thought the future might turn out."
In three years we will all have hoverboards!
They all missed that scientists would build a worldwide, high speed network for the reliable transmission of pornography to all corners of the planet, from Communist China, to the Soviet Union to the Arab world.
Arthur C. Clark's 2001 A Space Odyssey predicted the iPad in 1968. He called it a "Newspad" and it connected to all major newspapers over the "ether". In the book, Heywood Floyd reads it on his way to the space station. In the movie, you can see Bowman and Poole watching the news on them during the first scenes on Discovery.
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I wonder if this is any more accurate than their predictions of the years 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, or 2010
The predictions for 2010 were highly exaggerated, but the ones for 2010 were spot on.
Come on, Battlefield Earth was pretty good (though the movie was a lot better than the book).
What political party do you join when you don't like Bible-thumpers *or* hippies?
I'm thinking a 25 year old Scotch would be appropriate.
Might not hurt to have it delivered by a 25 year old blonde.
I predict more of the same. I also predict that people 25 years from now will still be making inaccurate predictions.
What political party do you join when you don't like Bible-thumpers *or* hippies?
Is that the one where Spock has a beard?
If you can't convince them, convict them.