Isn't it amazing that 60 years ago means the 50s now?!

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Excellent find. Reminds me of all the tomorrow's cars I used to drool over as a kid.

And shut up Donnie you're reminding us how old we are already.

Thanks for posting this, I was talking about something similar to this with the family not too long ago.

Always makes me upset - Where in the heck is my flying car?????

This was pretty cool. It is especially interesting how they called the cause for delay. Do you think many main stream magazines would dare call it that way now?

Originally posted by Signals
Thanks for posting this, I was talking about something similar to this with the family not too long ago.

Always makes me upset - Where in the heck is my flying car?????

Some of the food that Jane Dobson buys is what we miscall “synthetic.” In the middle of the 20th century statisticians were predicting that the world would starve to death because the population was increasing more rapidly than the food supply. By 2000, a vast amount of research has been conducted to exploit principles that were embryonic in the first quarter of the 20th century. Thus sawdust and wood pulp are converted into sugary foods. Discarded paper table “linen” and rayon underwear are bought by chemical factories to be converted into candy.

I suspect it is hidden in the same warehouse that's holding all of that candy made of underwear and paper towels.


That is one heck of an odd prediction. I'm sure glad that it didn't come true.

LOL Passengers will rocket from NY to San Francisco in 2 hours! They never saw the TSA coming did they?
mmmmm Chemical shave..........smooth.......%#^%^&@!!1 My face burned off!!! Scratch the chem-shave
You'll eat sawdust for food! Who the hell ever though of that? Great find and flag for posting it.

[edit on 5-2-2010 by Asktheanimals]

They forgot to mention SOYLENT GREEN.
Somebody shoot me before I eat sawdust. That is what they fed to Jewish slaves in the German rocket factories to get a few more hours of work out of them before they died.

WE WERE PROMISED JETPACKS!

There is a band with that name in the UK

By 2000, a vast amount of research has been conducted to exploit principles that were embryonic in the first quarter of the 20th century. Thus sawdust and wood pulp are converted into sugary foods.

In a way they were right - high fructose corn syrup. Who would've thought that corn would have replaced sugar?

I like how everything in there refers to "The housewife" lol. Man, they would flip out if they saw how it was today. "Wait... you mean... they work?" O.O

so true, it because of lack of invocation and too many freaking regulations, there still closet inventor making all kinda of stuff that can be used, you often refer to them as crazies or mad scientist or rednecks, but thanks to ridicules regulation, fee, patents, and much more depending on what your trying to work with, hell go try to make a plane and fly it see what happens, or build your own vehicle, if ya want a jet pack TOO BAD U ARE TERRORIST
not to mention, most people are idiots by olden times standard, most people can't feed themselves let alone understand basic engineering mechanic even if they had a book, all come down to the fact that the government/corporation don't want you being unique and rival their billion dollar money sinks, every major invention is generally done by one inventor or a small group, all corporation due is give you the same # for 30 years with no innovation... Look at the television, video games, cars, and phones... everyone is so impressed over new features, that where already old inventions, invented purely to be replaced a year later, with # they should already had.

Where my holograms and my robots,my jet pack and flying personal vehicles, what happen to space travel we just give up, should already have colonies on the moon.

/end rant