I have three future predictors:

Mechanix Illustrated in 1955 predicted for 2055:
- Domed cities with weather control
- Mach 40 Commuter rockets
- Telepathic alarm clocks
- Atomic Dynamo home power and heat
- Meal-O-Matic food synthesizer - food made from oil
- Ento=ire wall TV
- Transparent steel
- Sun lamps give sunshine inside the domw when it is cloudy, including healthful UV rays
- Magazines sold on microfilm
- Air conditioned air in the dome
- Apartment buildings hold up the dome
- Civilization has not collapsed, as the doomsayers predicted.
- Fusion power
- Robot operated factories
- Indestructible titanium books
- Jet packs
- Air lanes marked by tethered balloons
- Air traffic cops
- Helicopter buses
- TV phones - with rotary dials
- 10 year nuclear batteries
- Thoughtwriters (telepathic typewriters)
- Telepathic Thoughtphones
- Papers piled high on desks
- Tom Thumb electronic computer, made of germanium transistors. Developed in 2020.
- Moon prospecting kits
- We land on the moon in 2000.
- Cancer totally cured by Cancercillin 1978 anti cancer drug - they predicted the magic bullet!
- Average life expectancy is 101
- Atomic turbine automobiles
- "Make your own robot" kit
- Dream-O-Vision dream records
- Hollywood abandons film in 1988, and movie theaters close
- All planets visited by 2030, private exploration allowed in 2055.

PM didn't predict:
- Cell phones
- Surround sound
- Big government
- Video tape
- The Internet
- Email
- Digital recording and TV
- Women's rights

High Fidelity Magazine in 1961 predicted for 1971:

- Wall-sized electrostatic speakers
- 1" reels of Eidophor tape
- 2" optical TV records
- Opera glasses which can record a live theater performance on the optical records
- Consumer video tape
- Program notes on a TV screen while the record plays
- Wireless remote controls
- Wall projection TV
- Better and smaller tubes
- More TV broadcasts of classical music, replacing silly TV sitcoms
- The fad of Rock and Roll ended in 1965
- Movies for play in your home
- Computer-designed opera houses

HF didn't predict:
- Surround sound
- The decline in interest in classical music
- Tape cassettes

A 1962 science fiction book "The Time Machine slips a Cog" predicted for 1972:
- Thin winter clothing with electric heat and clear helmets
- Heatlights to melt the snow on sidewalks
- Flying cars (hovercraft)
- Rocket airlines
- Mars landing
- Computer stations at every school pupil's desk
- Pocket recorders replaced paper
- All government records on microfilm
- Art-deco buildings
- A change in the language over time

Fusion Power... Thats a tough one. I'm all about the meal-o-matic though. Specially if I can put it in supersize mode and trick it into thinking the barcode on my belly is smaller than it really is.. Then I git desert too.

Think HF magazine knew we'd be rocking the house with computers instead of vinyl? much less that the whole scene would start in Detroit? who'd a known

1. We are not colonizing and exploring the universe as was predicted, but perhaps that will change soon.

2. We have not experienced a nuclear holocaust yet, knock on wood. High-powered lasers on geosynchronous orbiting platforms may render intercontinental nuclear ballistic missiles obsolete soon. There's cause for mild optimism.

3. Earth has not been invaded by hostile space aliens as far as we aware. Perhaps contact will occur if we get our act together and use technology responsibly. We're still not playing well together as humans in the schoolyard sand box. Think about it, why would someone more advanced want to contact us if we continue to behave like polluting, over-populating, reckless, technology-enabled, selfish, warrior barbarians? However, what would we do if we landed on a resource-rich planet populated by stone age people? What happened to the Native Americans? What if we came face to face with 7-foot tall intelligent reptiles or intelligent insects? This is not the 1950s, but have we changed much since then?

[quote]- Papers piled high on desks[/quote]
that will be true for all of eternity

say we did land on a planet with a stone age alien culture. it could go one of two ways. think of the prime directive from star trek we might just levae them alone or we do to them what we as a species does best. we kill im all of and build a bunch of fudrukers

I do love Fudrukers....

I have seen nothing "concrete" regarding the way of the future. And frankly, it simply won't matter to you and I, just as "today" doesn't mattet to our ancestors.