looking to the future

[4getmenot]

does anyone else find 80 and 90's films set in the future 20, 30 years on amusing? Watching the island set in 2019 and cant see it being anything like it is shown. I know there are lots of gadgets about but things in the home havnt changed too much since the 90s

[jno]

2001 never happened. No monoliths, no Jupiter missions (but the self-righteous computer wasn't all that far off).

[Zacs-Master]

According to sci fi progs of the 70s were all supposed to be living in pods, eating pills instead of food and flying around on hover bikes.

[Buenchico]

I don't watch many films, so I'm poorly placed to comment here, but it does occur to me that today's kids wouldn't enjoy reruns of 'The Man from U.N.C.L.E.' When I watched it, the idea of someone instantly being able to speak (face-to-face) with another person on the other side of the world was utterly fantastic. A youngster who has just come off Skype might not be quite so enthralled as I was!

What I'd really like to see, though, is a compilation programme of all the predictions which were made on 'Tomorrow's World', just to see which ones came true and which ones were wildly inaccurate. In particular, I remember being told that "by the year 2000 we will all live in a paperless society". I must remember that when I next renew my benefits claim ;-)

[4getmenot]

i cant remember what year in the future they go to in back to future because i wouldnt mind some of those clothes where you press a button and they fit to your size. Perfect for jeans.

[4getmenot]

beun, it could easily be done, we have all the technology. But i guess a card or letter are still commonly used by the older generation.

[4getmenot]

but how strange it would be never to write again