On 11/10/2014 3:35 AM, spambucket0_at_cox.net [SkunkworksAMA] wrote:
>
> You're probably right. I was young and impressionable when Walt died.
> I don't know where I heard (or maybe read) that rumor. I do remember
> thinking that it was just like him to try something like that and it
> seemed cool at the time. But then I also believed that flying saucers
> might be studying the earth. I believed that we would have a colony on
> Mars in the 1990's. And I generally believed that the future would be
> one heck of a lot better than it turned out to be. I was greatly over
> generous in believing that human nature would cause people to use
> advances in technology to bring up the general quality of life for
> 'everyone' on the planet. It's it funny how things didn't turn out
> that way?
>
All things considered, while we don't have a future like was on the
"Jetsons," we have it pretty good.
Back in the 70's, AM radio was still the primary method for hearing
tunes. (FM was just getting started, not to mention 8-tracks, cassettes
and RECORDS!) :-D
TV had 4 channels. ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS. All via broadcast signals that
at times just plain went out or went bad.
If someone back then told me I'd own 3 computers, I'd say they were
nuts. Yet I do.
And no one ever mentioned anything like the Internet, e-mail, etc, even
in Science Fiction.
The first videogame I played was "Pong." :-D
Received on Mon Nov 10 2014 - 18:45:40 CST