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- ihate2regist, on 10/10/2007, -4/+103In the year two thousand!
- bightchee, on 10/10/2007, -1/+85It is very 2007 of me to immediately think "That's not how wings work!"
- fasda, on 10/10/2007, -0/+82Man they were really optimistic about about air speed/ lift ratio
- senorcool, on 10/10/2007, -0/+80Love the "one for the road". In the future you can not only fly, but drink while flying!!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+73heating with radium lol
- kjartan, on 10/10/2007, -8/+81I first read that as "Fresh Prince show the year 2000".
- wendeldiggs, on 10/10/2007, -2/+63"Correspondence Cinema"? Sounds so much classier than "Webcam Porn."
- A-money, on 10/10/2007, -1/+54"Heating by radium: Now with less Cancer!"
- wendeldiggs, on 10/10/2007, -0/+50Wouldn't firemen with dragon DNA be an irony-laden problem in the first place?
Just wondering... - bdbr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+47I guess everyone has to fly everywhere because the ground is full of war cars and cycle scouts.
The dude wasn't too optimistic about fashion ever changing, apparently. - kedohmen, on 10/10/2007, -0/+46BATfireMEN!
And why does the one little boy not get an education and have to turn the leaning machines crank? - T8erT0T, on 10/10/2007, -1/+43Cool stuff.Shame we don't have the firefighters with dragon DNA though =(
- Laytonx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+34It's the world on Tintin
- litolist, on 10/10/2007, -0/+33Oh, those French and their fairy firemen!!!
- MrTulip, on 10/10/2007, -1/+33the "cars of war" pic bears a striking resemblance to 'halo'
- vertinox, on 10/10/2007, -0/+31Most of these did happen though, but not exactly as they intended:
Flying Firemen - We've got Aircraft that can dump water (no fire fighters in the jet packs)
Car Shoes - Roller blades.
Rescue - We've got plenty of aircraft that do rescues today
Phonographic Message- Voicemail
Hearing The Newspaper - Radio (Technically happened in the 20-30s)
Correspondence Cinema - Video Web Conferencing
Cars of War - Humvees with .50 calibers on top
But mostly the flying car and direct brain learning stuff never happened, but generally some of these ideas are quaint since they turned out better... Our soldiers would like panzies in those scout cars. - sn0w, on 10/10/2007, -0/+29Funny how fashion, for some reason, wasn't expected to change at all.
- Azslande, on 10/10/2007, -0/+28When I get rich, I'm going to build that giant double ballooned airship. That thing is radical.
- fant0m, on 10/10/2007, -0/+27If only the "At School" were possible.
http://bp3.blogger.com/_sGYULzoQCgA/RuSSRaUYz8I/AAAAAAAABC4/WiaKbdhqWRE/s1600-h/At+the+School.jpg - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+26oh man i cant wait to get a pair of those car shoes
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+26These prints reflect the problem with every prediction of the future I've ever seen. You can't imagine what the future holds. Literally. This artist could only adapt those things familiar to him in his depictions. Star Trek is the only thing that ever came close. Gene had a good imagination. I love my flip top, hand held communicator. And soon I'll have one of those 210 inch LCD's.
- skotski, on 10/10/2007, -0/+23THE DISTANT FUTURE...THE DISTANT FUTURE...
AFFIRMATIVE! - Langford, on 10/10/2007, -0/+22Interesting that only a hand full seemed to depict new technologies. Most of them seemed to be simple predictions that their existing technologies would improve and become widely used by the public.
- Sharky35, on 10/10/2007, -4/+24Notice that the artist did not predict the French would bathe in the future, very accurate.
- dickbain, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19"Keeps you warm for at least 1,602 years!"
- uday0210, on 10/10/2007, -0/+18They had the "At School" one right on.
- Raisedbycoffee, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17They certainly expected everyone to make use of their flying contraptions and battling automobiles. Damn you flying police!! (not implying "when pigs fly" joke)
- jabesque, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14Oh great Steve, was it not Arthur C. Clarke who gave us the concepts of geosynchronous orbits and manned orbiting satellites? A 1921 play by Karel Capek entitled R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) where robots first appeared? Jules Verne and the submarine and space travel? Magnetic Levitation in Gulliver's Travels by Swift? Organ transplants in Shelley's Frankenstein? Even Quantum Mechanical teleportation and Star Trek? The walkman in Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury? Corrective eye surgery in Asimov's "The Caves of Steel"? Remote operation ("waldoing") by Heinlein in 1942's "Waldo"?
There are plenty more to speak of, not to mention more general ideas (cloning?) and events (world-ending comets?). I'll expect about as much from sci-fi predictions as I ever have... I take it you favor Nostradamus? :P
d. - GIFF3, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14lol. Why did they think flying would be so easy!
- FearlessFreep, on 10/10/2007, -3/+16Not bad...they projected Video Conferencing, Podcasts, and a few others...
Probably about as accurate a guess as any could've made in 1975 - CanceledCzech, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Is it a problem that the first thing I think of when I see a equine-like animal and a person on stage together with the caption "A Curiosity" is "Donkey Show"?
- manitoba98xp, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12I'd say the "Podcasts" one would be more accurately translated to news radio.
- CanceledCzech, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12God, I love digg.
- ButterBuddha, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12This should be renamed "Art inspired by Opium"
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Why did they insist on using all the same technology that was available in 1910, only in strange and unusual ways? Did you see the one with the plane rescuing the sailor? That plane apparently wasn't expected to change in 90 YEARS.
- Amplix, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13"Duplicate....... this isnt really a duplicate."
wtf? - OneLess, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Roller blades aren't what they're really predicting, since the "car shoes" are just roller skates (four wheels, not all in-line) with engines. Roller skates were invented well before 1907, so no biggy on that "prediction".
The "At School" one is partially correct, in that many students today go through entire classes with headphones/ear buds on :) - ONELOVE23, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Gene was amazing. Don't forget memory sticks.
- whatthefu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10The airship one is so. *****. awesome.
- jhnewt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Dugg for the lack of fashion foresight.
- CalmLlama, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12Its the american child
- BossKey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Dugg as that is precisely what I thought when I saw that.
- seventoes, on 10/10/2007, -7/+17Now this is a story all about how my Life got flipped turned upside down And I'd like to take a minute just sit right there I'll tell you how I become the prince of a town called Bel-Air
In west Philadelphia born and raised On the playground is where I spent most of my days Chillin' out, maxin', relaxin', all cool And all shootin' some b-ball outside of the school When a couple of guys they were up to no good Started makin' trouble in my neighborhood I got in one little fight and my mom got scared And said, "You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air."
I whistled for a cab and when it came near The license plate said fresh and it had dice in the mirror If anything I could say that this cab was rare But I thought, "Nah, forget it. Yo homes, to Bel-Air!"
I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8 And I yelled to the cabby yo holmes smell ya later Looked at my kingdom I was finally there To sit on my throne as the prince of Bel-Air. - sonofa, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9So he was thinking the same thing about 2000 as I did when I was a kid.
WHERE IS MY FLYING CAR?? - sleepwalkers, on 10/10/2007, -1/+100000001 0000011 00000111 000001111 0 001 001 001
- TRENT310, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10They would, quite literally, be Firemen.
- Treshnell, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9It's really neat how they had the right general idea, but how completely different the idea, in use, actually is. I'd like to see something similar made for what life will be like in 90 years. I wonder if the technological bounds we've made in the past 90 years will continue, or if we'll hit a plateau until we come up with a new revolutionary device that opens up the next technological spike.
- mrsneakypat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8http://www.pbfcomics.com/archive/PBF197-Automatic_Business.jpg
- CalmLlama, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8They used to think that radioactivity was good for you
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Binary Solo.
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