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- CheeseburgerBro, on 04/19/2008, -0/+26Mostly sunny, partly cloudy. High UV index, chance of rain.
...And morlocks. - Musicmonkey34, on 04/19/2008, -1/+24i hope the future has a catchy theme song, beer-fueled robots, and doesnt get canceled by fox.
- inactive, on 04/19/2008, -0/+19The world in the year 2000, as read by me in the late 60's.
1. Flying cars will solve all traffic problems.
2. Space travel will be as common as international travel.
3. Cancer will be cured.
4. All homes will have a robot to do chores.
5. Hunger will have been resolved.
6. The entire world will speak English.
7. The streets will be made of metal.
8. All sidewalks will be mobile, like escalators.
9. Surgical interventions won't require surgery anymore. - yojiffyskippy, on 04/19/2008, -0/+17That's what she said.
- zaldoe, on 04/19/2008, -0/+15this will be on digg 50 years from now... and our grand-children will be mocking us then like we mock our grand fathers now
- yojiffyskippy, on 04/19/2008, -0/+14I'd be happy if they could accurately predict the weather tomorrow.
- viciouspictures, on 04/19/2008, -0/+13figures your ***** hamster would end up giving you Alzheimer's. testify!
- Kamill85, on 04/19/2008, -1/+14Last time World's deep thinkers couldn't even predict 25 years into the future, it won't be any different this time...
- TipsyMcDoodle, on 04/19/2008, -0/+11Just give me my ***** hover board already!
- imnojezus, on 04/19/2008, -2/+13The term "post-privacy era" is the scariest thing I've heard in a long time.
- jordanau, on 04/19/2008, -0/+9I just want a robot. That's all.
(And not a ***** vacuuming one) - mecharabbit, on 04/19/2008, -1/+10Yeah, yeah...but what about flying cars and robot servants?
- yojiffyskippy, on 04/19/2008, -0/+7Those won't be here until the year 2000...... hey wait a minute!
- yojiffyskippy, on 04/19/2008, -0/+7It's not too late for you to stop mocking your grandfather.
- DavidinBoston, on 04/19/2008, -0/+7Other than aluminum siding, when you walk down a street today, the homes pretty much look just like they did in 1958. And fifty more years will not change that. The insides of many homes will be different, of course, i.e. the entertainment tech., the appliances, probably some type of robotic aids, etc. But the homes themselves will look very much the same in fifty years. The Jetson's style world of the future, if it ever comes to pass, will be hundreds and hundreds of years from now. I'd be interested to see the way my street looks in 2558, not 2058.
- sungoddess808, on 04/19/2008, -1/+7If we're not going to have cats for pets in 50 years, what will they do with them? I don't like dogs.
- inactive, on 04/19/2008, -0/+6You better hurry up and go post about it on your myspace, facebook and personal blog.
- notman, on 04/19/2008, -0/+5Pull him out of your ass, and you might be able to concentrate and remember things
- rif42, on 04/19/2008, -0/+5...and the US dollar will be worth 0.02 Euro... cent.
- inactive, on 04/19/2008, -0/+5How about from 1900?
Prediction #3: Gymnastics will begin in the nursery, where toys and games will be designed to strengthen the muscles. Exercise will be compulsory in the schools. Every school, college and community will have a complete gymnasium. All cities will have public gymnasiums. A man or woman unable to walk ten miles at a stretch will be regarded as a weakling.
Prediction #4: There Will Be No Street Cars in Our Large Cities. All hurry traffic will be below or high above ground when brought within city limits. In most cities it will be confined to broad subways or tunnels, well lighted and well ventilated, or to high trestles with “moving-sidewalk” stairways leading to the top. These underground or overhead streets will teem with capacious automobile passenger coaches and freight with cushioned wheels. Subways or trestles will be reserved for express trains. Cities, therefore, will be free from all noises.
Prediction #6: Automobiles will be cheaper than horses are today. Farmers will own automobile hay-wagons, automobile truck-wagons, plows, harrows and hay-rakes. A one-pound motor in one of these vehicles will do the work of a pair of horses or more. Children will ride in automobile sleighs in winter. Automobiles will have been substituted for every horse vehicle now known. There will be, as already exist today, automobile hearses, automobile police patrols, automobile ambulances, automobile street sweepers. The horse in harness will be as scarce, if, indeed, not even scarcer, then as the yoked ox is today.
Prediction #11: No Mosquitoes nor Flies. Insect screens will be unnecessary. Mosquitoes, house-flies and roaches will have been practically exterminated. Boards of health will have destroyed all mosquito haunts and breeding-grounds, drained all stagnant pools, filled in all swamp-lands, and chemically treated all still-water streams. The extermination of the horse and its stable will reduce the house-fly.
http://www.yorktownhistory.org/homepages/1900_pred ...
However, some of them were actually accurate!
Prediction #10: Man will See Around the World. Persons and things of all kinds will be brought within focus of cameras connected electrically with screens at opposite ends of circuits, thousands of miles at a span. American audiences in their theatres will view upon huge curtains before them the coronations of kings in Europe or the progress of battles in the Orient. The instrument bringing these distant scenes to the very doors of people will be connected with a giant telephone apparatus transmitting each incidental sound in its appropriate place. Thus the guns of a distant battle will be heard to boom when seen to blaze, and thus the lips of a remote actor or singer will be heard to utter words or music when seen to move. - spootmonkey, on 04/19/2008, -0/+5Cartman will hide them in his attic
- 40yrOldVirgin, on 04/19/2008, -1/+5You have to consider that LSD was very trendy back then.
- badqat, on 04/19/2008, -1/+5We could just eat them.
- inactive, on 04/19/2008, -0/+4Cheers.
- imnojezus, on 04/19/2008, -0/+4While it doesn't apply to me personally, I have to give you props for a great reply.
- GPY26, on 04/19/2008, -0/+3***** these "deep thinkers". the more we isolate ourselves the weaker we're going to get. granted, cats (italics) CAN (/i) carry something that can cause schizophrenic-like symptoms.. but you're at risk of getting that in any meat product you eat. i'm surprised these idiots didn't say anything about people converting to vegetarianism. i also think Ray is kind of an idiot.. he takes countless supplements a day.. it's just stupid. We've been around cats probably just as long-if not longer.. than dogs.
- NeoCon4Life, on 04/19/2008, -0/+3"As a result, it will be uncommon to keep cats, birds or hamsters as pets - but we'll still have dogs around, because they've been "man's best friend" for so long that we've already adjusted to their infectious agents."
They are trying to rid us of lol catz!!!??!???!? - sporg, on 04/19/2008, -0/+3Not a very good article but if you are really interested in Human anatomy I highly recommend this torrent:
http://www.torrentportal.com/torrents-details.php? ...
This program is awesome and here is the source if you would like to buy it instead of being a dirty pirate:
http://www.primalpictures.com/products.aspx - copypastry, on 04/20/2008, -0/+3Oh ***** then what will we put inane captions on?
- AlvesLopes, on 04/19/2008, -0/+2The pace of technological evolution is increasing so much that it is impossible to forecast the future for more than 15y.
Whoever thinks the opposite, doesnt comprehend how technology is evolving. - CrushThemTorg, on 04/19/2008, -0/+2I read the phrase "virtual reality" and buried it.
- DavidinBoston, on 04/19/2008, -0/+2Sorry, dighasnoethics, but you're wrong. The streets in my city look the same because THE HOUSES ARE THE SAME HOUSES THAT WERE THERE FIFTY YEARS AGO. There is no need to rip a home down and replace it, if it is still serving its purpose, and has been responsibly taken care of. MY house is over 100 years old, so it may NOT be around in fifty years. But many homes on my street will be here in 2058.
- rif42, on 04/19/2008, -0/+2This goes along with the future look as used in the beginning of the Minority Report film.
- digginaround, on 04/19/2008, -0/+2I'd like to think that at this point, we have a better idea of how the future will be, but damn it all, I was supposed to have a flying car by now, and wouldn't have to bother with that whole eating thing. We'll see when we get there, I guess...
- Scroogl, on 04/19/2008, -1/+3Where's the penis?
- masterwalls69, on 04/19/2008, -0/+2I wonder if we will have any freedoms left? Or will Big Brother know everything.
- ajkrik, on 04/19/2008, -0/+2Having lived 56 years, I think things will be technologically different, but people, politicians, economics, special interest control of Congress, and war . . . on and on, will all be there and flourishing. Technology rocks.
- flashback99, on 04/19/2008, -0/+2How does one measure the depth of thought and who elected these deep thinkers? Are these specialists not really 'deep thinkers' but people who have specialized in one specific academic area?
- rowdy7001, on 04/20/2008, -0/+1we can hope
- rowdy7001, on 04/20/2008, -0/+1"People will no longer be able to travel and engage in transactions with anonymity," thanks to surveillance and biometrics... THANKS??!!?? wtf.
/ hurray we're saved from the trrorists because every thing we do is recorded, and can and will be used against us. - Hangly, on 04/19/2008, -0/+1World's deepest thinkers? This list could have come from 1991.
We had our little honeymoon with the virtual reality fad. No one liked it. - speakeasy602, on 04/20/2008, -0/+1All of the things that were predicted back in the day were talked about when computers took up an entire room. They tried to predict all of this really crazy stuff, but they never talked about how computers would control everyone's life. You can make fun of what they thought would happen, or you can realize that what was invented was so far beyond their imaginations, that they predicted stupid things that seemed impossible, and they really are impossible.
What this article is predicting is not really that far-fetched. There are a lot of people out there that believe that the current generation will live to be 150+ because of medical breakthroughs.
There is a calculation or algorythym for everything, and as computers get better and better, the less dependant we are on our ideas, and we can rely more and more on computers to figure this stuff out. I think it's possible for someone to create a program that can tell you exactly what's in store for you as a person, not like telling the future, but from a genetic standpoint. The doctors now know what causes certain diseases, and now they can figure out if you are predisposed to it and get you treated before it ever becomes an issue. I think that's pretty amazing. - DamnedHumanRace, on 04/19/2008, -0/+1We see what we want to see i guess..
i can testify that once i saw "Bangkok" as "Bangbros" - addicted68098, on 04/20/2008, -0/+1Don't people with pets have a higher life expectancy?
- CrushThemTorg, on 04/19/2008, -0/+1This reminds me of those 1920s magazines that promise flying trains that will be able to fly you from Constantinople to Indochina in a mere three days.
- Hangly, on 04/19/2008, -0/+1Eloi burgers just a dollar.
- Aliarse, on 04/20/2008, -0/+1Deep Thinkers == *****.
- carguy25, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1Digg-ed
- copypastry, on 04/20/2008, -0/+1"People will no longer be able to travel and engage in transactions with anonymity,"
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO -
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