Comments on Paleo-Future: 1908

More like Kid Koala's Fender Bender musical video...

2008-02-04T04:05:00.000-05:00

More like Kid Koala's Fender Bender musical video.

Is it just me, or does this guy look a lot like Gr...

2008-02-03T06:35:00.000-05:00

Is it just me, or does this guy look a lot like Griffy from "Zippy the Pinhead?"

I think it's a mix of things... I think there's in...

2008-01-30T10:39:00.000-05:00

I think it's a mix of things... I think there's increased pessimism, dating back to the advent of the nuclear age; I also think that science fiction has become so popularly available and accepted that it's taken the role of futurism predictions.

I.e., if everyone's seen transporters and phasers and food replicators on Star Trek, it'd be kind of a "so-what" yawn if the New York Times published a breathless article that "Someday man may be able to beam from place to place!"

And as an extension to that point, science fiction has also explored so many themes -- to the point of humans evolving into bodyless energy beings, for instance, on shows as common as the Star Trek franchise and Stargate -- that it doesn't seem like there's much that *hasn't* already been predicted one way or the other, some time or another.

Saying what the world may be like in 100 years see...

2008-01-29T15:19:00.000-05:00

Saying what the world may be like in 100 years seems to be much less of a preoccupation now than it was in the 20th century.
Is this because it seems much less rosy now than back then? Or because things are moving so fast that it's just too hard to say?
Discuss.