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  • afroannnieafroannnie Posts: 12,995
    I can't imagine how this would ever work logistically...but I like the idea of flying my house and kitties wherever I want and visit friends :D

    "Houses will be able to fly [by 2000]… The time may come when whole communities may migrate south in the winter, or move to new lands whenever they feel the need for a change of scenery."

    —Futurist Arthur C. Clarke, Vogue, 1966
    Show #13 was a lucky one for me....
  • of.the.girlof.the.girl Posts: 10,026
    "Men will never fly, because flying is reserved for angels."

    Episcopalian Bishop Milton Wright, father of the Wright Brothers, date unknown
  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    afroannnie wrote:
    “Home taping is killing music.”

    —A campaign by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) targeting people who used cassette recorders to tape songs off the radio, 1980

    To some degree this might be accurate.

    Home recording efforts aren't "killing" music, but they're definitely changing it. In the eyes of big-wig record companies, for the worse.
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  • Who PrincessWho Princess Posts: 7,305
    “And for the tourist who really wants to get away from it all, safaris in Vietnam.”

    —Newsweek, forecasting holiday trends for the late 1960s

    :wtf:
    :lol:
    "The stars are all connected to the brain."
  • afroannnieafroannnie Posts: 12,995
    “I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and, in 1996, catastrophically collapse.”

    —Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3Com, 1995
    Show #13 was a lucky one for me....
  • afroannnieafroannnie Posts: 12,995
    “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.”

    —Ken Olson, co-founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
    Show #13 was a lucky one for me....
  • ClaireackClaireack Posts: 13,561
    afroannnie wrote:
    Now you have me clicking away.. :lol:

    “Strawberries as large as apples will be eaten by our great-great-grandchildren for their Christmas dinners.”

    —Ladies’ Home Journal, “What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years,” 1900

    :?

    I want one!
  • stargirl69stargirl69 Posts: 6,387
    dcfaithful wrote:
    afroannnie wrote:
    “Home taping is killing music.”

    —A campaign by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) targeting people who used cassette recorders to tape songs off the radio, 1980

    To some degree this might be accurate.

    Home recording efforts aren't "killing" music, but they're definitely changing it. In the eyes of big-wig record companies, for the worse.

    I remember that campaign well it was a very dramatic film vinyl being bludgeoned :?
    “There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen”
  • afroannnieafroannnie Posts: 12,995
    Claireack wrote:
    afroannnie wrote:
    Now you have me clicking away.. :lol:

    “Strawberries as large as apples will be eaten by our great-great-grandchildren for their Christmas dinners.”

    —Ladies’ Home Journal, “What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years,” 1900

    :?

    I want one!

    They would be great for making strawberry shortcake :D
    Show #13 was a lucky one for me....
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