Thursday, 4 January 2018

The 1968 Book That Tried to Predict the World of 2018

quote [ For every amusingly wrong prediction, there’s one unnervingly close to the mark. ]

It ain't the wine or the dope that's talking
[SFW] [literature] [+3 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@12:25amGMT]

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cb361 said @ 11:59am GMT on 4th Jan [Score:1 Interesting]
Always interesting to read past predictions of the present world. I think that writers often get the technological results correct, even if they get the method wrong - for example we eat lots of fast food, but it's boringly delivered to our homes by hand instead of through a network of pneumatic tubes. Writers usually get social changes completely wrong, because they extrapolate contemporary trends instead of envisaging true change.

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