View Full Version : Popular mechanics was right....
Crash
12-05-2004, 12:28 AM
Picture from 1954 Popular Mechanics Magazine
http://img124.exs.cx/img124/5829/m9xcomp2004.jpg
THIS IS THE HOME COMPUTER OF 2004....
dig the steering wheel.
Teuthida
12-05-2004, 12:50 AM
Mine has the steering wheel on the other side.
GameMaster
12-05-2004, 01:11 AM
That's an incorrect forecast. :lol:
dropCGCF
12-05-2004, 01:32 AM
I remember reading somewhere that 50 years ago, they thought we would be able to control the weather in 2000.
Typhoid
12-05-2004, 03:27 AM
Remeber flying cars?
Man was that rich.
Canyarion
12-05-2004, 02:00 PM
I was talking about this with my brother yesterday. How movies always have these incredible forecasts of the futere.
Remember Back to the Future 2? Flying cars, 3D movies, force field technoligy. :D
Minority Report is one of those movies. But that atmosphere there just makes me feel sick. :green: Why does EVERYTHING have to be new?? Nowadays we're still using things of 50 years old.... or things that really look like it. :)
+rep for the computer pic though. :p
dropCGCF
12-05-2004, 07:08 PM
Remeber flying cars?
Man was that rich.
The funny thing is that our government has them. Seriously.
Typhoid
12-05-2004, 07:32 PM
The funny thing is that our government has them. Seriously.
They also have Aliens.
And Bigfoot.
And Elvis.
*puts on tinfoil hat*
*conspiracy face*
Ace195
12-05-2004, 08:46 PM
They don't have flying cars... haha.. The physics of that are impossible at the moment, I mean for a car to fly it has to have a thrust weight ratio and It's just not economic for the world if we have flying cars. Until there is a better way to make them fly :)
Ace195 has left the building.....with elvis!!! wh000000!1!1!!
Stonecutter
12-05-2004, 09:13 PM
Picture from 1954 Popular Mechanics Magazine
http://img124.exs.cx/img124/5829/m9xcomp2004.jpg
THIS IS THE HOME COMPUTER OF 2004....
dig the steering wheel.
You've been Punk'd, or Farked, as the case may be.
The photo is real, but the text isn't.
That's from an old Sub.
Canyarion
12-06-2004, 03:51 AM
Haha, that's great. :D
I've heard about flying cars. I think they work like helicopters...
jeepnut
12-06-2004, 11:30 AM
The funny thing is that our government has them. Seriously.
The public has them too. The future is here.
http://www.cojoweb.com/skycar-i-1_Bx.jpg
http://www.jims-pages.com/foison/images/flyingcar.jpg
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:_MB82oiuBnEJ:billyboyd.deep-ice.com/collectormania/hpcar.jpg
Crash
12-06-2004, 11:42 AM
You've been Punk'd, or Farked, as the case may be.
The photo is real, but the text isn't.
That's from an old Sub.
that'd make sense... thought "how a home computer could look like" sounded a little like a 4th grader talking
either "how a home computer could look" or "what a home computer could look like"
or they were just dummies in the 50's
Canyarion
12-06-2004, 11:53 AM
I think the bottom picture of the flying car is more of a joke...
Blackmane
12-06-2004, 01:05 PM
Hello? The Harry Potter car is the real deal, chum!
Canyarion
12-06-2004, 04:25 PM
Ehm I didn't see that one, so I meant the middle one. :) It looks absurd. :p
Blackmane
12-06-2004, 07:18 PM
Oh...well then, you are forgiven!
Crash
12-06-2004, 07:37 PM
Hello? The Harry Potter car is the real deal, chum!
lol... the harry potter car... LMAO i didn't even notice that.
jeepnut
12-07-2004, 12:57 AM
Ehm I didn't see that one, so I meant the middle one. :) It looks absurd. :p
Nope, it actually exists believe it or not.
http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/AC/aircraft/Aerocar/info/info.htm
Canyarion
12-07-2004, 06:12 AM
Wow, it's real. :p
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