They aren't that far off. Its just that zeppelins didn't become popular like they were predicting in the 1930s. Too impractical, but we do have a lot of airplanes and helicopters.The guy has a clock radio, a printer, video monitor with a webcam, and there is wireless power distribution. You could reproduce that picture right now.
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Martin Baxter <martinbaxt...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > The first vision speaks to me. In a good way, so please stop cringing, all. > [?] > > > On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Mr. Worf <hellomahog...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> 5 Wacky Retrofuturistic Visions of 21st Century Office Life >> >> If there’s one thing that’s remained constant about the human >> imagination over the last few centuries, it’s that we dearly love >> envisioning the future. This endearing human quality was never more >> pronounced than in the golden age of wacky technology predictions, >> stretching from approximately the 1930s to the 1960s. The future was wide >> open and we really had no practical idea of what to expect, so we simply >> started making up the wildest futuristic scenarios possible. >> >> The future office was a particularly intriguing concept, since it was >> widely assumed that (thanks to automation) most people would no longer have >> to work by the 21st century. Therefore, the futuristic office was often >> populated by one lonely man who spent his day pushing buttons and observing >> screens full of information. >> >> The style for the office of the future seems to have been that >> particular type of futuristic where everything has rounded corners and is >> made of plastic. Luckily for us, most 21st century offices shy away from >> that aesthetic entirely. >> >> How far off were the predictions for the workplace of yesterday’s >> tomorrow? Unlike the futuristic drawings and renderings of previous decades, >> many of us continue to work in the service sector and there are still humans >> doing manual labor. Most of us are still waiting to be replaced by robots so >> we can spend every day at the beach. >> >> But the lone person sitting in an office and pressing buttons all day >> isn’t too far off. Most offices can be staffed by a minimal number of >> people, and those people do tend to spend a large amount of time watching >> screens and pressing buttons (or tapping keys). Sadly, the robot assistants >> and radio-controlled *everything* are still missing…but we do have >> Chatroulette, so it kind of evens out. >> >> > > > -- > "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell > wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik > > >
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