Site of the Day for Friday, August 10, 2001
Retrofuture
This site recounts the the glories postulated by science fifty years ago.
Explore the way life was going to be lived in the twenty-first century by
the scientific dreamers of yesterday.
"According to the visionaries, life in the year 2001 was supposed to go
something like this: you'd get up in the morning, fix a cup of coffee, read
the newspaper, watch a little TV, and then go back to bed. . . Social
scientists engaged in prolonged debates about this issue: what would happen
when people worked less, retired early, and had loads of free time on their
hands? Improbable as it now seems=97especially in our time-obsessed age of
instant deadlines=97these folks were dead serious." - from the website
Leisure 24/7 link
If you can recall a few of the starry-eyed dreams of science in the mid
twentieth century, this site may make you sigh for that utopian world of
the twenty-first century.
http://www.retrofuture.com/
A.M. Holm
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