Predicting the future is a tough job. Psychics and prophets are far too busy dealing with love lives and Armageddon to think about minor things like societal change or technological advances. That leaves the future in the hands of the artists and writers.
Unfortunately, without the miraculous powers of prophecy, sometimes the predictions are less than perfect in hindsight. 1984 thankfully passed without complete totalitarian domination and sadly 2001 has passed without a manned trip to Jupiter. We still have four years to get our hoverboards, though. Fingers crossed.
What is your favorite future? When is it? Have we already missed the mark?
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Sadly we have missed out on the future of the Terran Trade Authority books that I loved when I was a kid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terran_Trade_Authority) with its slightly optimistic timeline that a Lunar Station would be operational this year, a commercial passenger flight to Mars would run in 2015 and we’d have faster-than-light travel by 2027.
And no fan of futures that didn’t happen should miss out on the Paleofuture blog at http://www.paleofuture.com
That is an awesome site. Thanks Shockstrut.
The future of the Culture ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture ). I don’t think we’ve missed it yet…