Jetsons? Dude? Where's my flying car.
(Youtube search for Kevin Smith flying car)
Rhudi
On 11/10/2014 9:04 PM, Ross Sauer archae_at_charter.net [SkunkworksAMA] wrote:
>
> On 11/10/2014 3:35 AM, spambucket0_at_cox.net [SkunkworksAMA] wrote:
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>> 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
>
>
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