Over the weekend I came across an old article form 40 years ago wirting about life in November 2008.
I found it interesting and though provoking in some ways: the perception was that technology would give us far more leisure time (working only 4 hours a day).
Computers (and delivery of information) would be normal - ie. they refer to learning via TV (remember this was well before the PC), the Shopping channel was described in detail along with the ability to rent 'online' videos (they thought for schooling, which is a minor market, most is obviously movies or online crap - i.e. you tube stuff).
They really missed the boat on car transportation, urban management and agriculture.
Anyway: here is the link for those interested: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/24/what-will-life-be-like-in-the-year-2008/
I found it interesting and though provoking in some ways: the perception was that technology would give us far more leisure time (working only 4 hours a day).
Computers (and delivery of information) would be normal - ie. they refer to learning via TV (remember this was well before the PC), the Shopping channel was described in detail along with the ability to rent 'online' videos (they thought for schooling, which is a minor market, most is obviously movies or online crap - i.e. you tube stuff).
They really missed the boat on car transportation, urban management and agriculture.
Anyway: here is the link for those interested: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/24/what-will-life-be-like-in-the-year-2008/
