The Retro Future
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Post subject: The Retro Future
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 04:16 AM
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This is an article written in 1968 predicting what life in 2008 would look like 
Your thoughts?
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Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 01:34 PM
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It's interesting to me how futurists almost always overestimate the ability of society to embrace change wholesale. That said, we have a bunch of those technologies available in potential, and some of it was spot on.
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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 05:17 AM
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I was amazed at the accuracy of some of those 
They covered everything, but they couldn;t QUITE grasp the internet fully from the article.
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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 02:25 PM
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But a bunch of the technologies that he mentioned have been, or are potentially, realized with the internet and cellular networks.
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