Imagine it's the 1970s, what are your predictions for the year 2000?

[Anarcho-Socialist]

I look on with fascination at TV science shows and books from the '70s that made predictions of what the world is going to be like in the year 2000.

Here are my predictions for the year 2000:

Robots will do most of the labour in society, meaning that most people will only need to work less than 2 hours per weekday.

Microcomputers will be so powerful, that they'll be able to load programs from cassette tape in under 5 minutes

Pocket calculators will become affordable for the middle-class

Television will be broadcast in 3D

Gasoline vehicles will be phased out in the 1980s and replaced by electric cars in the 1990s.

What are your predictions for the year 2000?

[David__77]

1. I'd say, "we'll either have socialism or fascism."

Unfortunately, that one is perhaps true.

[sniffa]

2. disco wiLL become increasingLy popuLar

to where it's the onLy branch of music.

[physioex]

3. You mean it's not popular.....

:shrug:

[Anarcho-Socialist]

4. That's an interesting suggestion

I think the synthesizer will replace all musical instruments and by 2000, people will have forgotten how to play any other instrument.

[Occulus]

5. Robots in homes

floating cars
computers that can answer any question and respond to verbal commands
peace in every nation on Earth
a President who would not lie to the people

Oh, I could go on and on.....

[HereSince1628]

6. OPEC control of oil economy collapses as oil dries up

NASA opens Shuttle Service and Launch Center in Hawaii to meet demands of corportate need to speed up turn around time for spacelifts.

Back-breeding of doemestic cattle create genetically analogous strain of cattle last seen by those painting images on cave walls.

[Done]

7. I saw a rerun of "Laugh In"

They did a future news report for the year 1984. One joke started, "President Ronald Reagan...." There was immediate laughter.

[GalleryGod]

14. Yes! I Saw it too!

My favorite has always been the World's Fair prediction of:
Personal Helicopters in our driveways.

I guess we missed that one!

[johnnie]

8. Let's see

Charlie's Angels will go on thru the next millennium and will prove beyond all doubt that Farrah was the "Actress of the century".
Bell bottoms will not be in style.
8-track tapes will be replaced by 16 track tapes and will be designed so you won't have to put a folded up matchbook under the tape so it will play and not warble.
Streaking will become an Olympic event.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

9. Fashions in the year 2000, will see people wearing silver bodysuits

with holograms on them. These suits will adjust the body temperature accordingly to offset outside termperatures.

[Ready4Change]

10. Advanced Space Program

Multiple permanently manned space stations, including space hotels for tourism. Permanent manned bases on the Moon, mining material and sending it into Earth orbit for processing by orbital factories. Manned missions to Mars (similar to early 70's Moon missions) completed. Projects for manned missions to Saturn and Jupiter under construction (using materials mined from the Moon.)

Tourism to space stations somewhat expensive but commonplace. Sub-orbital SST flights provide transport to any point on the globe in 3 hours or less for the well funded traveller.

[livinginphotographs]

11. Flying cars.

n/t

[terrya]

12. The moon will be colonized.

Also, an international effort will come to fruitition regarding a manned voyage to Mars.

[BurtWorm]

13. Democracy will be perfected in the United States.

The will of the people will be gauged via biometric feedback and represented perfectly, second to second, by a robotic "government" receiving commands psychically as well as electronically. The people will be basically hip, cool, non-uptight because pot will have long been legalized and will become as American as a cup of joe. Therefore, love, peace, and understanding will be the order of the day.

I can't wait!

Oh shit, it's 2005 and none of it came true! :cry:

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

15. President Dan Fogelberg!

snarf!

[ZenLefty]

16. Video phones

Everybody thought when we called someone, we'd see their face on a screen. The technology was simple enough, but no one actually wanted to use it. I guess we like our privacy, or at least our anonymity.

[GOPBasher]

17. A man who wants fascism and theocracy would take control of the US.

Okay, I guess I wouldn't have predicted that. Who could've realized that? :shrug:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

18. Brazil will become a superpower

(if you believe the RW military dictatorship propaganda)