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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Wednesday, December 27, 2006 - 3:15 pm
lmao
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Wednesday, December 27, 2006 - 5:30 pm
wow! that's a BIG one, too. LMAO here's one for everybody:

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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, December 27, 2006 - 5:42 pm

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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Wednesday, December 27, 2006 - 8:42 pm
LOL!!!!
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 12:36 pm
Things have been fairly quiet in this thread lately so I thought that I'd toss a question out there that we might find interesting and that we all have experience with. I'm going to call this ….. "What Happened to the Flying Cars?" I don't know how many of you remember the Popular Science magazines and such that predicted the future and what life would be like in the 21st Century? There were some pretty interesting (and as it turned out) far out predictions that included among other things, the idea of flying cars and a four day work week. Well there are no flying cars and I don't know anyone who is enjoying a four day work week at full pay? So what happened? No 2001 – A Space Odyssey and people are working more and harder than ever? I thought it might be fun to discuss some of the amazing predictions that we remember from the 50's and 60's that haven't happened and try to figure out why the future is working out differently than people predicted!
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 1:14 pm
I know a few folks on 4-day work weeks. They have four 10-hour days, then three days off. As for flying cars. . . well, let's just say I'm glad they're not around. THere are enough problems with drunk drivers and just plain bad drivers on land without putting them up in the air! I'm still waiting for one of those synthesizers like on Star Trek where you just punch in the food you want and poof! there it is with no preparation or cooking on your part -- and no cleanup, either! 
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 1:52 pm
Yeah what happened to not having to cook meals anymore, but have all our needs in pill form. And where are those robots that were supposed to clean my house!
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 1:53 pm
Roomba, Marysafan! LOL
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 2:06 pm
One of the coolest things to read, ever! Here is a Modern Mechanics article from the 1950's about what life will be like in the year 2000. Anybody here purchase their house, fully loaded, for $5000.00? http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/10/05/miracles-youll-see-in-the-next-fifty-years
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 2:32 pm
Marysafan, the meals in a pill were supposed to happen In the Year 2525, according to the old baby boomer song. youtube.com, Zager and Evans
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 5:45 pm
Well, there were the jet packs so people didn't have to walk.
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 7:43 pm
the meals in a pill were supposed to happen In the Year 2525 Soylent Green is people.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 8:14 pm
hey I hugged Newman and he didnt respond to me!!! I feel so worthless
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 8:52 pm
That's because Newman is a teaser. Here's a hug for you, Pamy. Anytime you're feeling low, just holler.

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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 9:36 pm
There there, Pamy.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 10:04 pm
I think Newman is trying to kick his hangover, over in the Friday Night Lights thread..
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Babyruth
Member
07-19-2001
| Sunday, January 07, 2007 - 1:32 pm
I love Soylent Green. Great with a fine chianti.
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Sunday, January 07, 2007 - 2:01 pm
Isn't life supposed to be like the Jetsons by now? I'm still waiting for that. Though I guess the large number of very small planes is just a quick jump away from our own space ships.
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Boberg
Member
10-04-2002
| Sunday, January 07, 2007 - 2:38 pm
Ok, no Jetsons yet, BUT we all are sitting somewhere around the world and able to talk to one another here in real time if we wanted to!!! Hey thats pretty cool. I do have a robot that vaccuums for me and then goes and plugs itself in for recharging! I have a telephone that has no wires connected that I can talk all over the world on, take pictures with and send them out to anyone, anywhere! I can watch people in a house in California act a fool, live right here in my home in Texas! Real Time no less...now thats a summer for ya!...LOL I can click a button on a remote and my TV automatically records shows for me to watch at my convenience. So we're not exactly where they said we would be...but were are some place pretty cool! Babyruth...."I'm thinking of having a friend for dinner" LOL....maybe with some fava beans!
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Sunday, January 07, 2007 - 4:20 pm
huk, the only thing i got for $5k fully loaded was my honeymoon in 2002. and, it was worth every penny. i'm still waiting for the self-cleaning house, the moving sidewalks other than those in the airport, the 'beam me up, scotty' transporter for instantaneous travel, no need for money, etc.
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Sunday, January 07, 2007 - 5:38 pm
You're right Boberg. So many things in life that are absolutely amazing when you think about it.... and we get to play with them every day. I still haven't gotten over the concept of electricity....or even the basics of television.
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Sunday, January 07, 2007 - 6:45 pm
i was 11 when we got our first air conditioner. and, it was a window unit in my parents bedroom for their use only. i was 13 when we got color TV and shortly thereafter a 5 channel cable connection! the weather channel consisted of a bunch of clock looking items on a table that the camera panned back and forth across. LOL and, all the channels still signed off around midnight. i was 15 when i got a blow dryer and a handheld calculator. i thought i had died and gone to heaven. now, my 14 yr. old nephew doesn't know a world without computers or cell phones. how far we have come just in my short lifespan.
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Sunday, January 07, 2007 - 7:24 pm
I took a computer class in high school but it was was a Basic programming class. I hated it..LOL Later on hubby and I bought a TSR 80 (In early 80's) and learned to use it. My daughter doesn't know a time when there wasn't a computer in the house.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Sunday, January 07, 2007 - 10:49 pm
TWIGGS my first 'puter was a TRASH 80 too! (LOL)
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Monday, January 08, 2007 - 1:34 am
Heck, I was in elementary school when we finally stopped having to answer the question, "Number please?" when we picked up a phone receiver! LOL And it wasn't until I was in college that my folks finally got a pushbutton phone instead of a rotary dialer. I remember going to Western Auto with my dad to check the tubes from inside our TV set and get replacements as needed. I remember penny candy that really WAS a penny and Winner's Suckers that cost a nickel (which was a LOT), but if you were lucky, you got one with a sticker on the back inside the wrapper that said you won another one for free. That was HUGE for us. I remember learning to use a slide rule in high school and the first handheld calculators in college that cost way too much and didn't do anything beyond basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division (no percents, even). I remember learning VisiCalc on an Apple IIe and, before that, using a 300-baud modem that held the receiver of the telephone in a cradle so that I could connect via a dumb terminal to the DEC VAX computers at the bank where I worked. ALl that said, though, and despite the many advances we've made, I'm STILL waiting for some of the things y'all have mentioned. Especially the transporter from Star Trek and being able to order food by simply saying, "Computer, Mac & Cheese like mom used to make, please!" And I want my very own Rosie the Robot housekeeper to do all the cooking, cleaning, and laundry, too. 
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