Es ist immer wieder interessant welche Vorstellung wir von der Zukunft in der Vergangenheit hatten.
Welche Ideen wirklichkeit wurden und welche sich heute noch unglaublich verrückt anhören.
Als Kind war ich immer von der Idee des Videotelefonieren fasziniert. . Wir hatten damals noch so ein Telefon mit Wählscheibe und von so Sachen wie Handys , Webcams, Internet hab ich noch nicht mal geträumt.
Gleichzeitig mit jemanden reden und ihn auch noch sehen stellte ich mir technisch unmöglich vor. Wie sollte man ein Bild durch die Telefonleitung schicken, lol epische Kindheitsgedanken und so.
Hier mal ein paar Perspektiven aus dem Jahr 1968 für das Jahr 2008:
The single most important item in 2008 households is the computer. These electronic brains govern everything from meal preparation and waking up the household to assembling shopping lists and keeping track of the bank balance. Sensors in kitchen appliances, climatizing units, communicators, power supply and other household utilities warn the computer when the item is likely to fail. A repairman will show up even before any obvious breakdown occurs.
Computers also handle travel reservations, relay telephone messages, keep track of birthdays and anniversaries, compute taxes and even figure the monthly bills for electricity, water, telephone and other utilities. Not every family has its private computer. Many families reserve time on a city or regional computer to serve their needs. The machine tallies up its own services and submits a bill, just as it does with other utilities.
Computers not only keep track of money, they make spending it easier. TV-telephone shopping is common. To shop, you simply press the numbered code of a giant shopping center. You press another combination to zero in on the department and the merchandise in which you are interested. When you see what you want, you press a number that signifies “buy,” and the household computer takes over, places the order, notifies the store of the home address and subtracts the purchase price from your bank balance. Much of the family shopping is done this way. Instead of being jostled by crowds, shoppers electronically browse through the merchandise of any number of stores.
TV screens cover an entire wall in most homes and show most subjects other than straight text matter in color and three dimensions. In addition to programmed TV and the multiplicity of commercial fare, you can see top Broadway shows, hit movies and current nightclub acts for a nominal charge. Best-selling books are on TV tape and can be borrowed or rented from tape libraries.
A typical vacation in 2008 is to spend a week at an undersea resort, where your hotel room window looks out on a tropical underwater reef, a sunken ship or an ancient, excavated city. Available to guests are two- and three-person submarines in which you can cruise well-marked underwater trails.
