Life in the year 2000 (as predicted in 1961)

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http://www.pixelmatic.com.au/2000/

[Haole Girl]

1. Extra oxygen at work?!

:rofl:

[Reverend_Smitty]

2. Well we do have synthetic juice, tea and cocoa powders

but I'm still waiting for my rocket belt!

[KSinTX]

3. 24-hour work week? Greeter at Wal-Mart, maybe?

Now I think people average 60 hours or a bit less. Let's keep hoping for that one :)

[tjwmason]

21. This is a subject I find most interesting.

Back in the '60s folk were talking about how difficult it would be to fill the hours of leisure with which we would all be endowed - the exact opposite has been the case, with the relentless pursuit of greater wealth (for whom?) meaning that we often work far longer hours.

[TrogL]

4. Love the bust commercials

They had spam even then.

[Dr Fate]

5. Paleofuturism rocks- check this out:

http://www.paleofuture.com/search/label/1960s

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6. wow- thanks

[Dr Fate]

7. I hope you have the next 6 hours free- that site is the bomb. n/t

n/t

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10. I'm sure I'll spend many hours there. A few other retro sites I like:

http://www.conelrad.com/index.php - atomic age - civil defense

http://www.civildefensemuseum.com/ - cold war - atomic age

http://yesterland.com/yester.html - early Disneyland

http://gorillasdontblog.blogspot.com/ - early Disney and other theme parks

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/ -oddities all over the USA

[Dr Fate]

12. NEAT-O-Just what I need- thanks! May I ask..

...what is your particular interest in this stuff?

I use it for ideas & concepts in my comic I'm creating...

I could also use some hard-core 50's early-60's suburbia stuff...

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14. For me it's just nostalgia, I like stuff from that era becuase I grew up in the 1960s

[Dr Fate]

15. Well, I grew up in the 70's & 80's on 50's & 60's TV re-runs, records & comics.

I was fortunate to have a lot of older cousins turn me on to that stuff...I wasnt there but I have always wished I was.

Everything I've learned confirms that your nostalgia is well founded! Not a perfect era, but an era of hope, predicting wonderful things to come...

Why people are nostalgic for the 80's is beyond me....

[hunter]

8. I liked the 1950's prediction.

http://www.paleofuture.com/2008/01/how-experts-think-well-live-in-2000-ad.html

Some of the predictions are completely off the wall, but they've well described one of my old girlfriends...

"The woman of the year 2000 will be an outsize Diana, anthropologists and beauty experts predict. She will be more than six feet tall, wear a size 11 shoe, have shoulders like a wrestler and muscles like a truck driver. She will go in for all kinds of sports – probably will compete with men athletes in football, baseball, prizefighting and wrestling."

The only thing they left out was intelligent and sexy, a scientist, a business person, an eager participant in drunken brawls, and cussing like a Russian Sailor.

Hmmmm. Maybe I shouldn't post this.

[Dr Fate]

9. LOL! Everyone who knows about this site loves it- I hope you enjoy it.

n/t

[mainegreen]

11. When do I get my freaking monorail?

I was promised a monorail dammit!

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17. I guess it started with Disneyland and ended with the Seattle World's Fair.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

13. Where's my fortnight trip to the moon?

I demand to spend a fortnight on the moon!

[Q3JR4]

16. Let's see...

You'll have a home control room - an electronics centre, where messages will be recorded when you're away from home. This will play back when you return, and also give you up-to-the minute world news, and transcribe your latest mail.

Mail and newspapers will be reproduced instantly anywhere in the world by facsimile.

There will be machines doing the work of clerks, shorthand writers and translators. Machines will "talk" to each other.

Three out of nineteen... Well, what about the things that weren't predicted: the rise of email, the internet and cheap, instant communication, GPS navigation, geostationary satellites, wearable and portable electronic devices that put all the recorded knowledge of human civilization at your fingertips.
Just imagine where we'll be in another 39 years (if, that is, human civilization is still around).

Q3JR4.

[Initech]

18. Holy crap, they nailed this one:

"Our children will learn from TV, recorders and teaching machines. They will get pills to make them learn faster. "

:wow:

[LaurenG]

19. I want a rocket belt!1!11

"Rocket belts will increase a man's stride to 30 feet" I could just walk to work!

[Solon]

20. OK, this is a funny post from that site...

http://www.paleofuture.com/2007/07/looks-for-era-of-brotherhood-1923.html

Looks for Era of Brotherhood (1923)

Winifred G. Hedenberg laments the brutality of WWI in the February 12, 1923 Bridgeport Telegram (Bridgeport, Connecticut) article "Thinking Men and Women Predict Problems of World Century Hence."

The year 2022 will see a world reverted back to barbarism if another war on the scale of the so-called World War takes place within the next fifty years; but it will be a degenerate type of savagery, with man killing his fellows at sight. None of the noble traits of the American Indian will be found in the 2022 type of savage.

On the other hand, if no major conflicts take place between nations I believe 2022 will see an era of universal brotherhood, where poverty, wars, famines, the Republican Party and other like afflictions will be unknown. Prisons as we know them to-day will have vanished. I believe by that time no person will have any reason for theft or the minor crimes responsible for filling our jails to-day.

LOL, LOL, LOL! If only we can hope! :party:

[jmowreader]

22. I thought you threw the Republican Party in there just to be funny

but it's actually in there!