Comments on: MI Readers Suggest: Amazing Marvels of Tomorrow

By: Unfaity

Unfaity — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:44:16 +0000

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By: name

name — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:28:56 +0000

Good day!,

By: jayessell

jayessell — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:52:07 +0000

Re #13: And you thought Color Ink Cartridges were expensive!

By: Odon

Odon — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:12:46 +0000

Well cut them some slack. They wanted Americans to embrace the future, not flee from it in terror. Besides, who’d predict that in ten years or so long haired male students would be burning the flag in protest against being drafted into an unpopular war in Indo-China?

By: jayessell

jayessell — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:09:07 +0000

Kakaguete…
What did you expect from Mechanics Illustrated?
What magazine WOULD predict social change?
National Geographic? Mad? High Times? Playboy?

(Charlie, find some of those!)

The Paleo Future blog had a magazine article that predicted women of the 21st Century would be
6 foot tall Amazon Supermodels.
The 1950s movie ‘Project Moonbase’ featured a woman president.

By: Kakaguete

Kakaguete — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:26:10 +0000

It astonishes me that they only predicted technological changes and not the social forms changes.

Nice blog.

By: cks2008

cks2008 — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:56:53 +0000

An easily worked plastic-metal in strip, sheet and mastic form, could be fulfilled with Fiberglass and resings beginning to be use in 1955 or earlier.

A projector that transfers color photos (or just solid colors) to walls could be done today with various technologies. Same with a color changing wall, mentioned later in the article.

Building and paving material that stores light, glows all night; the technology exists with those solar garden lights.

Automatic drink mixers (AKA robot bartenders) exist as curiosities or engineering student projects.

By: JMyint

JMyint — Fri, 30 May 2008 00:28:45 +0000

Just walk down the shaving isle of your local Walgreens and you will find a number of dipilatories formulated for beards.

By: KellerMaverick

KellerMaverick — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:08:11 +0000

Ok — one idea for 2058:

Digitized scents…a device encodes a smell (such as the subject of a Food Network program) and some type of output mechanism relays the smell much like a speaker or display relay sound or video.

You heard it here first…

By: K!P

K!P — Wed, 28 May 2008 10:06:53 +0000

loads of things are there, amazing

By: Benzene

Benzene — Wed, 28 May 2008 03:19:01 +0000

The wipe-off whisker solvent exists too, if you’re up to putting Nair on your face. I wouldn’t.

By: Rick Auricchio

Rick Auricchio — Wed, 28 May 2008 02:16:56 +0000

So what happens when you toss and turn in the hover-bed? Do you roll out of the “beam” and crash to the floor?

But it would be rather cool to have your alarm clock turn the bed off suddenly.

By: nlpnt

nlpnt — Wed, 28 May 2008 01:10:42 +0000

“Didnâ€™t I read somewhere that cellphones will be used to pay for parking and vending machine purchases?”

From what I heard, that one’s in the “already happening in Japan” file.

By: jayessell

jayessell — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:47:00 +0000

Max…
Hasn’t that story (severed finger re-grown) been discredited?

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=113

Your main-stream media at work!

By: Max

Max — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:15:00 +0000

“Chemical stimulant for regrowing lost parts of the bodyâ€”hands, legs, fingers, etc.” Looks like we’ll have that one fairly soon:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories.....0219.shtml

By: jayessell

jayessell — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:45:31 +0000

Excellent find Charlie!
I recognised several from Star Trek and SF literature.
Who could have predicted videotape would be obsolete by 2008!
Nice hit on GPS, Webcams and Debit cards.
Didn’t I read somewhere that cellphones will be used to pay for parking and vending machine purchases?

By: Eliyahu

Eliyahu — Tue, 27 May 2008 16:29:15 +0000

Some were out in left field, but it’s surprising how many were either spot-on or came fairly close to possibilities. I wonder how many of us would come any closer if we were to proffer fifty-year predictions now?

By: nlpnt

nlpnt — Tue, 27 May 2008 15:55:22 +0000

Not so much Tivo as VHS (camcorders and tape)- how soon we forget, but I love it when the blue-sky far-future predictions turn out to be obsolescent before we’re barely more than halfway to the date they had in mind.

I want to know what happens if you have a hover bed and forcefield walls and the power goes out, or for that matter, how would you prevent spoilage of the piped-in milk.

By: Blurgle

Blurgle — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:48:44 +0000

I see dental sealant, Google (central information bureau), video voice mail, the taser (stun gun), electronic banking, Tivo, WWV synchronized clocks, and almost QVC (with the elimination of the conveyer tube). Not bad for 1955.

By: Neil Russell

Neil Russell — Tue, 27 May 2008 12:47:21 +0000

I like the glass windowed submarine, but then I was always a nut for the Seaview.
Seems like the drink dispenser would be more acceptable by mom if the liquor row were higher up out of junior’s reach.
And I was happy to see it was a Russell that suggested video voice mail!

By: HairyFriend

HairyFriend — Tue, 27 May 2008 10:27:49 +0000

Clearly MI readers were all high