have you been let down by the future?

[Marc Chevalier]

Where is Tor Johnson? Why isn't he a zombie yet?

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[Miss Neecerie]

But see....

Just like in Demolition Man...

All restaurants are indeed now Taco Bell......


So at least they followed through with that...


Denise...who somehow got a pizza instead of a crispy pseudo-mexican thing the other day...

 

[Lincsong]

I can see clearly now the rain is gone.

It's gonna be a bright, bright, sun shining.

Look all around, there's blue sky-high highs

 

[BegintheBeguine]

Mars needs women

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Saw a 1920s Soviet silent film yesterday. Early science fiction. The title cracked me up: Interplanetary Revolution. Talk about overreaching! lol


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[Absinthe_1900]

I'm still waiting for my 40's automobile styled personal helicopter.

 

[Story]

Where are the monoliths?
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Mexico City.

Monolith Perhaps Largest Found in Mexico
Archaeologists say monolith found in Mexico City perhaps largest unearthed in city's center
MEXICO CITY, Oct. 13, 2006

(AP) Archaeologists announced Friday that a monolith discovered earlier this month near Mexico City's main square is perhaps the largest ever unearthed in the city's center.

The monolith, found on Oct. 2, is rectangular and measures nearly 13 feet on its longest side. The largest monolith from the city's center until this latest discovery _ the circular Piedra del Sol, or Aztec Calendar, unearthed in 1790 _ has a diameter of 12 feet.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/13/ap/tech/mainD8KO0MQ00.shtml

Note the date of the public announcement.

 

[Benny Holiday]

I've been in the process of writing a sci-fi novel for some time now (all I need is some time in which to complete it! ), and during my research into possible future technolgies I've discovered that scientific and technological ability is only one of the factors that influence which developments we see. One of the other major factors is consumer interest. For instance, three or four years ago, a lot of the big whitegoods companies began churning out the new revolution in kitchen appliances, the 'internet refigerator.' This marvel could scan all the products you stored in it, and when your inventory grew low, it could re-order them for you via the 'net and have them delivered to your door. No more dragging yourself down to the supermarket after work or on the weekends. Cool, huh?

Well, the idea just didn't take off - well, not here in Australia, anyway. Consumers, as a majority, just weren't ready for it. Big screen TV's and iPods, yes, but not the inetrnet 'fridge.

A lot of the future is determined by what the market will bear.

That said, I still want a streamlined repulsor-lift car with Cadillac-inspired tail fins that floats three feet above the roadway on a contained vector field. Hey Koop, maybe we could get together and do some heavy modifications on my '60 Chevy or your '57 Chrysler? lol

 

[Lady Day]

I think we have all been jipped by tv shows like V and movies like Planet of the Apes (I forget which one was set in 1988 was it?).

Im more upset about hte lack of touch pad technology everywhere. I expected that to be everywhere by now. [huh]


LD

 

[Senator Jack]

Posted By Benny Holiday:
For instance, three or four years ago, a lot of the big whitegoods companies began churning out the new revolution in kitchen appliances, the 'internet refigerator.' This marvel could scan all the products you stored in it, and when your inventory grew low, it could re-order them for you via the 'net and have them delivered to your door. No more dragging yourself down to the supermarket after work or on the weekends. Cool, huh?

The following is excerpted from an article I wrote about this sort of technology:

... I keep reading, for instance, that Whirlpool is set to unveil a refrigerator that will sense when the household is low on milk, and will, upon making such an unthinkable discovery, dial you up on the mobile to ensure a gallon is collected. Certainly on the surface this all sounds very helpful, but, really, can you imagine the following,

‘Hello, Jack. This is Stan. Stan, your refrigerator. Yes that’s right. Well I’m only calling to tell you that we’re out of milk and you should pick some up on the way home. Mmm…a gallon I’d say. You haven’t forgotten that your nephews are coming over, have you? Oh, and by the way, Jack, make sure you do come home straightway tonight. No stopping at the bar for a drink, not even a quick one. And…well…if you think you’re going to go chit-chatting with that floozy, Rita, down in Accounting, well you can just forget about that too. Yes, I know all about you two, Jack. Joe the Cell Phone told me all about it and even sent me pictures. Disgraceful you were. Just disgraceful.’

Well, I can’t vouch for the rest of mankind, but I do know the very last thing I need in my life right now is to be harassed by my major appliances.


Some technology just isn't meant to be.

Regards,

Senator Jack

 

[happyfilmluvguy]

The future is steering towards the likeness of the Jetsons and The Terminator. Computers will take over the world and everyone will be lazy with technology!

I'm still looking for the homebase of the Quantum Leap project and the bionic Million dollar man

 

[Quigley Brown]

When is soylent green day in LA?

 

[Matt Deckard]

When is soylent green day in LA?

Soylent Green is Tuesday

 

["Doc" Devereux]

Soylent Green is Tuesday

NO! Soylent Green is... Ah the heck with it, you all know the rest of the line.

Come to LA... more women. They ship the best looking ones out here when they turn 18 and put them to work in diners until they are ready for Television.

(You may want to read the rest of this in a 1940s Path?© newsreel narrator's voice...)

Not all of them, I can assure you. Many nations across the world now send their beautiful young women to London! Yes, London: the home of the Empire has now become Totty Central, and boy are the chaps here grateful for it. Stunning ladies with accents beyond belief are to be found in every fashionable bar and restaurant in town, and all a fellow has to do is be British and charming to have a chance at conversation.

I'm working on a piece about this for a side project, can you tell?

 

[LizzieMaine]

It's funny -- I grew up convinced there wasn't going to *be* a future, so I really didn't have anything to be let down by. Well, no, I take that back -- I spent years and years looking forward to the arrival of Halley's Comet in 1986, and when it turned out to be a fizzle, I was terribly disillusioned.

 

[scotrace]

So distant

"In the year 2000..."
"When we get to the year 2000"
"By the time we enter the year 2000"
"How old will you be in the year 2000?"

It's rather hard to explain, but "the year 2000" seemed impossibly distant when I was a kid. As Lizzie mentioned, a lot of Civic and Social Studies classes talked about the Cold War as though a winner-take-none war with the USSR was unavoidable. So "the year 2000" didn't seem like a place we'd ever see.

Of course, we made it, and even got an iPod outta the deal.

 

[Matt Deckard]

Where is the half-buried Statue of Liberty on the beach?

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You mean the icon of the capitalist pig. You would like to see that wouldn't you?

Well Liberty still stands with her torch in hand.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Where is the half-buried Statue of Liberty on the beach?

You mean the icon of the capitalist pig. You would like to see that wouldn't you?

Well Liberty still stands with her torch in hand.

*Sigh*

There's a 1968 science fiction movie, see, named The Planet of the Apes. And the kicker, see, is that this astronaut bloke enslaved by the apes .... well, he's riding around on a horse on a beach somewhere, see, and he runs into the Statue of Liberty, but all decayed and half-buried in the sand -- serving as painful, undeniable proof to the astronaut dude that he has been on Earth the whole time.


Please tell me you knew this, Comrade Deckardsky.

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[Absinthe_1900]

I still want the future to look like the past.

 

[Haversack]

I think that there is a considerable body of predicted future stuff which has come true. But because we have grown up with it, we do not notice it much. Matt mentioned the remodelling of Disneyland's Tomorrowland into a Jules Vernean image of the future. Disney did it because Tomorrowland's future-look from the 1950s had pretty much come to pass and no longer read as futuristic. This was my impression the last time I was there. The glass, steel, aluminium, and concrete architecture of Tomorrowland looked a lot like the standard suburban commercial architecture now seen everywhere in towns and cities here in the U.S. Compare your mental image of what a "Bank" built in the 1930s looks like with what a "Bank" built in the 1980s looks like. Also, Tomorrowland's Autopia is realized in our freeway interchanges. If you were to take someone directly from 1954 and just drive them around I think they would be suitably impressed that this was the future.

Haversack.