The year we make contact?

Writing about web page http://2010book.tumblr.com/post/310745454/cover

Some guy has dug out an old book written in 1972 that posits what life will be like in the year 2010 and posted the contents online.

It reminds me of the books in the library at school about what life might be like in 'the future'. Full of colourful illustrations of futuristic houses with robots delivering parcels and filling up the freezer with the food it had automatically ordered for you via an outside hatch.

A woefully inaccurate prediction stuck in my mind is that by the year 2000 people will be living on the moon and speaking latin. It's possible it's only stuck in there because I made it up though.

I'm slowly coming to accept that we won't have flying cars by 2015 as depicted in Back to The Future II.

Mike Willis : 13 Jan 2010 19:34 |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem