h/t daily timewaster
In 1960, maybe. Not so much now.
BTW, those two kids in the pic? They're now in their 80s, if not already dead. And the peak delivery of what they were promised was less than a decade away, and it's all been downhill on that promised future since then. It's unlikely that even their great-grandkids will ever see a piece of what they were told was coming "someday". Civilization has been ebbing backwards since then, in more ways than not.
Futurists are right less often than weather men.
No jetpacks. No flying cars. No disintegrator rays or laser pistols. No space travel.
In fact, just assume everything you were ever told would happen that isn't already starting, is one big fat lie, and you'll outperform them by about 4 decimal places in your batting average.
The only thing their prognostications are useful for, is historical evidence of how they wished things were going to turn out.
Wish in one hand, and poop in the other, and see which one fills up first.
The future is a dream, and we have to deal with the reality. But our actions will determine what future we get, individually and collectively.
ReplyDeleteAs Arthur Clarke observed, we are over optimistic about the future in the short-run and under optimistic in the long-run.
ReplyDeleteSo I'm not the only one who feels eternally betrayed by the way things actually turned out as opposed to all those lofty grandiose promises leveled at us by everyone from the media to parents/grandparents to teachers and other assorted "experts".
ReplyDeleteLiving in this present age is more than a disappointment----it's the result of an act of downright treason the way they misled us with all this talk about "Progress" while civilization now practically atrophies.