Some entertainment if you are stranded at home.

[jimslip]

Here are some exciting predictions from 1970's TV series Tomorrows World:









Enjoy!

[Bob Singleton]

Still waiting for delivery of my personal jet pack as promised by Raymond Baxter!!! Grrrrr!!!!

On a more serious note, I think 1969 was the pinnacle of man's achievements... Concorde, Apollo 11 and the first Led Zep album. Today we can no longer fly in a supersonic airliner, we seem to have given up going anywhere beyond earth's immediate orbit, and the X Factor finalists have released a travesty of a cover of David Bowie's "Heroes". in other words we've gone backwards.

[frankthring]

Its clear back then that robots were expected to do far more than
seems to be the case....or maybe we are suspicious of them....
watching these old clips did not make me laugh so much as feel
nervous.....maybe I am just a true old-fashioned Luddite, but science
scares the pants off me.....people come in two kinds only, those that
expect the scientific advances that affect us ordinary folk in next 40 yrs
to be beneficial and those, like me, who dread them....Orwell`s
prediction that Big Brother will soon be watching us everywhere gets
ever-closer....!

[jimslip]

Would you be alarmed if someone like this, one day greeted you at your local bank, Mr Thring?

[img]http://zoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/robot.jpg[/img]

Or could this be the ultimate blind date of the future?

[img]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_grJMb96ljx8/T ... 90x397.jpg[/img]

[Bob Singleton]

frankthring wrote:

>
> Its clear back then that robots were expected to do far more
> than seems to be the case....or maybe we are suspicious of
> them....


Maybe we are suspicious of them because robots/computers have so often been depicted as a "baddie" in films... HAL9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey, the original Terminator, SID 6.7 in Virtuosity, the Cyclons in Battlestar Galactica, Maria in Metropolis, Ash in Aliens, Yul Brynner's gunslinger in WestWorld... and so on and so on.

Yes there have also been "good" robots (R2D2 and C3PO for example), but we tend to remember the evil ones more!