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Title: remember any predictions for the year 2000?
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Published: Jun 24, 2007
Author: kiki
Post Date: 2007-06-24 23:57:54 by kiki
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if you've been around for a while like me, you probably had ideas when you were young about the year 2000 and the 21st century. this is on my mind today for 2 reasons: last night my husband and I were laughing about all the predictions we heard for the year 2000 when we were kids. they mostly revolved around moving sidewalks and kitchen appliances with minds of their own. we would all ride around in hover cars several yards or higher above the ground. we would vacation on the moon. what we marveled at, last night, was what we never heard or imagined - that we would be able to communicate, in real time, in our own homes, with people all over the world. the 2nd reason this is on my mind is that at church today, we were talking about how we might possibly view this current war, and this current administration, if newspapers, tv and radio were still our only source of information. we were appreciating the fact that so much more information is readily available beyond the propaganda, thanks to the internet. so to me, major avenues of communication are the amazing thing so far about this century - so much better and more interesting than moving sidewalks. I wondered what y'all expected in this new century, and what you think of what we got instead.
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#1. To: kiki (#0)
really...just thinking about how small our spheres of awareness were back then and amazing how close and attached we can feel to friends and loved ones 100s of miles away because of this internet thingy. (i do wish we had the hover cars though ;)
ha! me too except......we're all such bad drivers already (I know, speak for myself), can you imagine if we were colliding and cutting each other off in the air?
I think that one will come true some day! Not too long ago I had this dream that I was a little kid with my parents (different parents) and we were in such a car, it flew at a height a few yards above the tops of buildings. We were on a trip to Mexico across the border, and instead of it being poor with lots of slums, it was a very clean tourist area where well to do people lived, with nice buildings and stores and restaurants. We landed our car down on a parking space by a building, then when we got back in, we levitated to the top and took off. There were invisible lanes that were somehow automatically controlled so it was impossible for there to be any collisions. These cars traveled very fast. They were also made of a clear type of plexi-glass so you could see all over. I've dreamed a few times of Mexico across the border, and it's always very pretty with nice buildings, very clean, and desert-like and dry, nicely landscaped, a lovely place that is a popular tourist destination. I know it's weird.
Hummmm. Mushrooms grow well up there???
"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men" Plato
No I've just always remembered my dreams. I've always been this way.
I saw "2001" when I was about 12. Boy, was I disappointed. No hover cars flying to the moon on weekends so I could play golf, no space stations, no colonies in space or on the Moon or Mars. It's not a whole lot different than when I was a kid. The Internet, computers, big-screen plasma TVs, yeah, but dammit, I want my flying car!
Freeper motto: I read, but do not understand, I write, but make no sense, I think, but nothing happens.
Well, not for 2000, but for 1980. Some seer, white-haired guy, mid-1960's said that a cure for cancer would be found by 1980. Could be true; alternative health claims are not being investigated, to my knowledge.
...with the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.
How William Shatner changed the world.
my mom died of cancer in 1982. then, and ever since, there's been a nagging little feeling in the back of my head that she didn't have to die, not then anyway. I don't let it drive me nuts, what good would that do? but I guess that's when I first began to think of the whole cure for cancer thing as such a money-maker for some that there was no reason to find a cure and conclude the search.
Diana, I went to college in western maryland, and there was a town called hagerstown about 50 miles away, I think. I've never been there. for some reason, back then I started having a recurring dream where I was driving through barren, mountainous highways, and suddenly saw a sign that said "welcome to hagerstown" and was in a city so beautiful that it couldn't possibly exist outside fiction. I dreamed this several times a month for a couple of years. every time I told anyone who was from or had been to hagerstown, they convulsed in laughter. after college, I never had this dream again, but I can remember it very clearly.
It sounds like you have been dreaming about San Jose del Cabo.I spent three very short days there two weeks ago.The only thing you left out was the food was incredible.
that we would be able to communicate, in real time, in our own homes, with people all over the world.
#2. To: christine (#1)
(i do wish we had the hover cars though ;)
#3. To: kiki (#0)
we would all ride around in hover cars several yards or higher above the ground
#4. To: Diana (#3)
I've dreamed a few times of Mexico across the border, and it's always very pretty with nice buildings, very clean, and desert-like and dry, nicely landscaped, a lovely place that is a popular tourist destination. I know it's weird.
#5. To: tom007 (#4)
#6. To: kiki (#0)
#7. To: kiki (#0)
#8. To: kiki (#0)
#9. To: rack42 (#7)
Some seer, white-haired guy, mid-1960's said that a cure for cancer would be found by 1980
#10. To: Diana (#3)
#11. To: Diana (#3)
I've dreamed a few times of Mexico across the border, and it's always very pretty with nice buildings, very clean, and desert-like and dry, nicely landscaped, a lovely place that is a popular tourist destination.
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