HypoXenophobia (Level 1)
How to Train Your Dragons 4/5. Very charming even though a tad predictable.
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After a series of vivid dreams and my girlfriend's phone making horrible noises, I spent a good portion of the morning thinking about the past and the future. So I looked up stuff on how the future was perceived in earlier generations(which is oddly hard to find) and came across a childrens book 2010 : Living in the Future. (the link provided shows the book in it's entirety).
I'm not necessarily here to babble about how some predictions were true and some weren't. More as a discussion of unrealized hopes, I thought we'd all have.
I'm 21, born in 1988. I grew up with a NES. Being bewildered by a light gun that was capable of shooting at ducks on my screen. Being able to watch my dad enjoy playing baseball games on it when it became too cold to play outside. As I grew older, I saw Windows 3.0 at my school. Each classroom had one. I used to finish my school work as fast as possible so I could play with not only Solitaire, but with screensavers of zooming into stars, or being able to write stuff out without needing a pen. My eyes glowed with potential at what could be achieve.
So, zoom forward a bit, and Windows 95 starts to become as something we can now afford. I begged my parents for one. After falling asleep to the Flinstones and the Jetsons, my child brain assumed this was the future. It was an incredible machine. Being able to look up information on software encyclopedias, play 3D games, and watch small bite sized movies, I felt like we were at the cusp of bigger and better things.
This is all written with a sense of naivete for a purpose. While things have sped up, things now look better, things now can do more, nothing really creates a sense of eyes-wide glow that those early products did for me. I didn't really assume that by 2010 we would have flying cars. I did on the otherhand that within 15 years of me learning what cancer was from horrible news stories, that we'd develop a cure. I also grew up believing world peace was achievable, but thanks to the BBC, I know otherwise. After watching a video in 4th grade, I did imagine by now cloning would be mainstream and that California would sink into the ocean. (the last one is still too close to call). I thought pop rocks would become its own style of candy, like chocolate bars and gum and hard candy. These were all slightly plausible predictions I had from the ages of five to ten.
So, I don't really know where we stand going to 2025. Maybe amphibious cars will be plausible. While I doubt space travel, maybe the Concorde plane might come back. After watching this back in 2005, we all have the ability to predict the future.
What predictions did you have as a kid about the future, what do you currently predict for the future?
I'm not necessarily here to babble about how some predictions were true and some weren't. More as a discussion of unrealized hopes, I thought we'd all have.
I'm 21, born in 1988. I grew up with a NES. Being bewildered by a light gun that was capable of shooting at ducks on my screen. Being able to watch my dad enjoy playing baseball games on it when it became too cold to play outside. As I grew older, I saw Windows 3.0 at my school. Each classroom had one. I used to finish my school work as fast as possible so I could play with not only Solitaire, but with screensavers of zooming into stars, or being able to write stuff out without needing a pen. My eyes glowed with potential at what could be achieve.
So, zoom forward a bit, and Windows 95 starts to become as something we can now afford. I begged my parents for one. After falling asleep to the Flinstones and the Jetsons, my child brain assumed this was the future. It was an incredible machine. Being able to look up information on software encyclopedias, play 3D games, and watch small bite sized movies, I felt like we were at the cusp of bigger and better things.
This is all written with a sense of naivete for a purpose. While things have sped up, things now look better, things now can do more, nothing really creates a sense of eyes-wide glow that those early products did for me. I didn't really assume that by 2010 we would have flying cars. I did on the otherhand that within 15 years of me learning what cancer was from horrible news stories, that we'd develop a cure. I also grew up believing world peace was achievable, but thanks to the BBC, I know otherwise. After watching a video in 4th grade, I did imagine by now cloning would be mainstream and that California would sink into the ocean. (the last one is still too close to call). I thought pop rocks would become its own style of candy, like chocolate bars and gum and hard candy. These were all slightly plausible predictions I had from the ages of five to ten.
So, I don't really know where we stand going to 2025. Maybe amphibious cars will be plausible. While I doubt space travel, maybe the Concorde plane might come back. After watching this back in 2005, we all have the ability to predict the future.
What predictions did you have as a kid about the future, what do you currently predict for the future?
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