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eridani

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4. The biggest thing that futurologists of the 40s and 50s got wrong

Reply to pokerfan (Original post)

Thu Jan 5, 2012, 07:50 PM

Jan 2012

Knowing that there were large airplanes and large computers, they assumed that of course everyone would want a small personal plane, but not, for some reason, a small personal computer.

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Predictions of the future from The Ladies Home Journal in 1900 [View all] pokerfan Jan 2012 OP

Well, let's look at a few they got wrong: ret5hd Jan 2012 #1

And they anticipated high speed rail Warpy Jan 2012 #5

I've had one or two supermarket strawberries as large as small apples eShirl Jan 2012 #18

No C, X, or Q in our everyday alphabet ... eppur_se_muova Jan 2012 #2

overall, pretty darn amazing! n/t Celebration Jan 2012 #3

The biggest thing that futurologists of the 40s and 50s got wrong eridani Jan 2012 #4

To be fair pokerfan Jan 2012 #6

Love that pic! progressoid Jan 2012 #14

I thought about that picture today when I bought this: laconicsax Jan 2012 #16

Victorinox announced a 1TB thumb drive at CES this week pokerfan Jan 2012 #17

What's interesting about this piece... Dead_Parrot Jan 2012 #10

Socialist claptrap! AlecBGreen Jan 2012 #7

education is the silver bullet pokerfan Jan 2012 #8

"Store purchases by tube" Dead_Parrot Jan 2012 #9

Lotta ecological ignorance, tho: "There will be no wild animals" Odin2005 Jan 2012 #11

They sure got a lot wrong there... laconicsax Jan 2012 #12

Considering it was 1900 pokerfan Jan 2012 #13

I didn't say it was all wrong, just mostly. laconicsax Jan 2012 #15

I'm glad the "small plane for everyone" thing never happened. BlueJazz Jan 2012 #19