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Amph Future predictions from the 1960's

Discussion in 'Archive: SF&F: Books and Comics' started by VadersLaMent, Apr 21, 2007.

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    VadersLaMent Chosen One star 10

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    Ever wonder why you don't have a flying car? Why don't you live in a mega city? Why isn't my tv solar powered?

    Tales of future past

    This is a look back at all of those things they thought we would have from robots to cars to dystopias. It appears to take from the world of scifi and science but is not technical at all. it's a big site with each of the buttons on the left leading to severl pages of several pages behind them.

    Boy, were we off base. It isn't simply that the predictions were wrong. No one with half a brain really expected that sort of accuracy. And true, though some marvels did not come to pass, others that were and weren't predicted did. We certainly live very different lives from that of our fathers and grandfathers. That is not in dispute. But what did not happen is what many expected, though never talked about much. Assuming that we dodged the 1984, Brave New World bullet, our future was supposed to be a sort of technocratic, atomic-powered, computer-controlled, antiseptic, space-travelling Jerusalem that would at last free us from the curse of Eden and original sin. We expected some how, some way that we would be on the road to being freed from the human condition. We expected a sort of bloodless, benign French Revolution with Hugo Gernsback as our Voltaire and Carl Sagan as our Robespierre. And what did we get? The City of Man with Tivo. The fact is, science fiction and popular science had set the bar so high that only the Second Coming with ray guns would have satisfied.


     
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