Them retro folks wasn't too far off. They got the iPhone spot on. The very early proto-types looked similar. Now folks imbed them in their butts. That flying car in the background not so much. Yeah we got them,...in a way, but they'll never allow'em. Picture Drunk driver coming through your window on the 20th floor.
The above relic from the German Sci/Fi 'Zine "Utopia-Magazin 1929.
Btw like everything else worth while back then it was shut down by da fucking Nazis. A gang of Yanks Brits, and the blood in the eye vengeful Red Army sorted their evil shit out a few years later.
"Living in the Future is like having Bees live in your Head."
(Firesign Theater 1972.)
If I were in 1972, I would stay there.
ReplyDeleteZ
A more than reasonable position.
ReplyDeleteI would do my best to persuade my friends to stay there with me. When they express a desire to see what the future holds, I will tell them: "Ronald Reagan will be a two-term President, with worse to follow. Also, you know how disease has been conquered by antibiotics? That's going to end, especially for brand new STDs. The sexual revolution will be over. Computers and other gizmos will spy on you for The Man, just like in dystopian movies. Bond movies will deteriorate. There will be no flying cars or vacations on the Moon, except for billionaires, and you won't be in that club any more than you are now. In fact population will explode, industrial civilization will start tanking and so will your quality of life."
ReplyDeleteI think I'd get quite a few takers.
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I saw Soylent Green so had an idea things might not be so cozy in da fucking future. What I never imagined was that some of us would end up with less rights than we had in 1890. You'll note how once I gleefully propagandized on certain subjects. Now it's back to vague hints.
ReplyDeleteOther than that everything is swell.
I mean after all there's 24 hour free porn gushing out everywhere.
I find it amusing how the rubes all live in terror of Gobbermint micro chips in da fake food'n useless vaccines.
Whereas they walk around with iPhones which track them listen to them, and watch them 24/7/365.
If SNL were still funny they would be a skit on that.