Predicting the Future
When I was in grade school, there was a day when we were supposed to wear something we thought would be popular in the future. There was one kid who wore tinfoil. It's excusable for a kid that age to think that look is futuristic, but I think most of us knew it wasn't going to catch on.
There was also a girl who predicted we would be going to school and communicating with the teachers via monitors and cameras by the year 2000. It's funny to think of how people, young and old, perceived the future. Just look at the examples from the movies about two or three decades.
I don't know if it was a prediction, but in the movie Back to the Future, there were flying cars and hover boards. The characters in the movie could find their identification in their thumbprints. The crazy thing is that all this was supposed to happen in the year 2015. It's nuts to think of that being only four years away.
For the first time in years, I recently watched some of the movie Rocky IV and I was reminded of Paulie's robot. I had completely forgotten about it. The robot seemed so out of place and it just seemed like it didn't belong there.
Robots were popular in 80s movies, but I'm not sure if it was a prediction. If so, talk about way off. When was the last time you were at a friend's house and there was a robot serving you food and drinks? As great as that would be, it's never going to happen.
The funny thing about it is that in all the movie predictions of what the future might be like, I can't recall of a single one that goes in depth with the internet, and it's such a big part of our lives and will be in the future. Why would we go without it?
If I were to make a prediction about the future, it wouldn't have anything to do with robots or flying cars. It would be something regarding the internet.
There was also a girl who predicted we would be going to school and communicating with the teachers via monitors and cameras by the year 2000. It's funny to think of how people, young and old, perceived the future. Just look at the examples from the movies about two or three decades.
I don't know if it was a prediction, but in the movie Back to the Future, there were flying cars and hover boards. The characters in the movie could find their identification in their thumbprints. The crazy thing is that all this was supposed to happen in the year 2015. It's nuts to think of that being only four years away.
For the first time in years, I recently watched some of the movie Rocky IV and I was reminded of Paulie's robot. I had completely forgotten about it. The robot seemed so out of place and it just seemed like it didn't belong there.
Robots were popular in 80s movies, but I'm not sure if it was a prediction. If so, talk about way off. When was the last time you were at a friend's house and there was a robot serving you food and drinks? As great as that would be, it's never going to happen.
The funny thing about it is that in all the movie predictions of what the future might be like, I can't recall of a single one that goes in depth with the internet, and it's such a big part of our lives and will be in the future. Why would we go without it?
If I were to make a prediction about the future, it wouldn't have anything to do with robots or flying cars. It would be something regarding the internet.
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Alexis Wright could be a movie critic if she wanted to. Although she's typically an expert in the electricity field, she does a good job of keeping up with the latest movies, TV shows, music, news and other forms of entertainment. She's very well rounded and does a great job of keeping her readers entertained on a daily basis. To read more of her stuff, feel free to visit movie predictions. This article, Predicting the Future is available for free reprint.
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