what we thought 2012 would be like
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Cancer has been cured, everyone drives electric cars, paraplegics get up and walk and the Soviets are colonising Mars — welcome to the year 2012.
Or not.
We searched through news archives from the past 30 years to find articles which predicted what life would be like now.
While they may not have guessed we’d be using iPads and proving the existence of the Higgs Boson, it’s clear people expected much more from our civilisation.
Here’s a list of the lofty heights we were expected to have reached by the year 2012:
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Cancer has been cured, everyone drives electric cars, paraplegics get up and walk and the Soviets are colonising Mars — welcome to the year 2012.
Or not.
We searched through news archives from the past 30 years to find articles which predicted what life would be like now.
While they may not have guessed we’d be using iPads and proving the existence of the Higgs Boson, it’s clear people expected much more from our civilisation.
Here’s a list of the lofty heights we were expected to have reached by the year 2012:
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hear my name
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
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Then there's this:
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=194524
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Or flying cars. It's bad enough having to traverse the city on 2 dimensions... imagine that speeding, texting teenager in her flying Scion, coming up from below.
No thanx.
Hail, Hail!!!
roads?... where we're going we dont need roads
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"