General / Off-Topic On 1988 year, the Los Angeles Times Magazine pub*lished a 25-year look ahead to 2013

DobrijZmej

DobrijZmej
On April 3, 1988, the Los Angeles Times Magazine published a 25-year look ahead to 2013. This year, USC professor Jerry Lockenour is using the series of articles in a graduate engineering class he teaches. Link.

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Lestat

Banned
Lestat
To bad. I North of LA for 30+ years. It almost looks like it did from the 1988. Yes the cars still have Tires on them.
 

Frank

Frank
drew said:
Also shows how completely and utterly wrong most predictions are. :)

Cheers,

Drew.
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The great thing about predictions is that there are so many of them. If you pick and choose carefully enough you'll eventually find one that came true.

Have you read "A Logic Named Joe" by Murray Leinster?
 

JeffRyan

JeffRyan
I loved books that predicted the future. The big almost A4 sized books. Future Cities, Future Technology etc. They all lied to me. I should have a robot and lying in the sun sipping cocktails... I do lie in the sun sipping cocktails part of the time, but no robots. Oh and I should have a 15 hour working week that keeps me in a middle-class lifestyle. Not this 40+ nonsense I actually do.

Lies all lies.

One thing that is interesting a lot of these books I read in the 80s early 90s predicted the internet in the sense of online shopping and online newspapers, but nobody comes even close to the severe social impact. Except maybe Stapledon in Star Maker when he discusses the Other Earth early in the book.
 
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Magma

Magma
I liked the revelations that Sam and Max received from Future Max in the game "Chariots of the Dogs":

"In the future, we can make phone calls to other people, even when we're not at home! And our cars now have additional brake lights, above the rear seats!"
 

Susimetsa

Susimetsa
Yup, I must agree on the Idiocracy angle. The movie was pretty bad, but the first 10-20 minutes or so were rather poignant.
 

Frank

Frank
I can remember reading "The Marching Morons" by Cyril M. Kornbluth years and years ago. I thought is was just a joke at the time. I didn't realise it would be such an accurate prediction.
 
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