The Ladies Home Journal tells it
I must be getting boring, I went to type in “This is awesome” as my subject, and it auto-completed.
It’s a pretty amazing read. Some things are totally off-base (human lifespan being only 50 years, extermination of the insects) and some are amazingly spot-on (mass-produced fast food/delivery, and specifically that having one’s own cook would be extravagant).
It talks about the lack of coal, because of course oil isn’t king yet. And yet, the similarities are there. Transmitted color photography.
And, of course, the end of the “hello girl!” :)
EDIT: I want to see the 2001 version of this! If anyone’s aware of an article like this that’s contemporary, let me know!
That IS awesome. Wow. I especially like the part about the horse being replaced by the automobile in every way. Automobile sleigh = ski-doo.
I was also amused by the bit about condensed English being spoken. Srsly. :)
*giggle* I hadn’t thought of it that way! Here I was thinking that was off-base.
The lolcats are very sad that you didn’t consider their growing following.
That’s because they don’t have a representative in my home, I’m sure.
I can send you a framed photo of one…photos won’t make you sniffle.
Not spoken so much as typed and texted – but perhaps I’m not around enough tweens to know. :)
At the very least, our “normal” English is condensed from how that article was written.
ya rly
IDK, MY BFF JILL!
kthxbi!
*win*
The fact that they predicted wireless worldwide communication is amazing.
I want my pneumatic mail tube! No more of that cranky postman crap!
One for mail, one for food, one for products…
With inexpensive material to catch the air, that wouldn’t be too hard. Or, once we move away from hard drives and entirely to flash drives, high-speed magnetics. While I’m not sure if it’d be worth the money, the funny thing is that I can totally see this happening. We already have underground infrastructure for cable TV, phone, sewer, water, and natural gas. Why the heck not mail?
Clearly, I need to become the mayor of my own city and institute some changes.
Sounds very steampunk to me. In so far as what I understand steampunk to be. :)
Ok, that is the coolest thing I’ve read in quite a while. Equal parts hysterical and dead-on. Very neat.
IMO
The bit about the “English will be a language of condensed words, expressing condensed ideas.
LMAO
TTY
I’m FUBAR-ed aren’t I?
:)
FTW
i’m amazed at how many times i nodded my head and said “yeah, we got that… yeah, that’s right….”
…then you run into weird stuff like Peas the size of beets, no more suburbs, tube transported packages (other than the bank I have never seen this), and people wanting to be fit (the obsession with it and tendency to buy gym memberships to use the gym like a singles bar hasn’t led to actual improvement – we’re actually lazier than ever before in the history of the species).
I actually had a discussion about our shift from one method of keeping food unexposed at work to another just this morning with a guest at the hotel – we wrap our pastries individually instead of keeping them on covered trays (those are the two options corporate gives us – food cannot be exposed) for sanitary reasons.
that’s pretty sweet. they have mad speculation skillz0rz.
I almost laughed at the “free university education for all” bit. It’s been getting more expensive year after year, in these parts…
That really was truly astounding, how dead on some of it was. Now if only we can get some peoples butts in gear so that physical education is a daily requirement in every level of education, so that everyone can walk 10 miles a day. Health car! Children actually have health care even if the family can’t afford it and college is a free public institution! Raise of hands of people who didn’t have health insurance during college and are still playing off student loans. (me!)
(me)