A Different Future

[gothwalk]

Originally published at Now Is A Long Time Too. You can comment here or there.

I dunno, nothing for weeks and then two posts in a single day. Here’s a set of German postcards from the early 20th Century, depicting Life in the Year 2000. It’s bizarre to see how much it’s like the 70s and 80s ideas I grew up with - it’s essentially the technology and dress codes of the time, with ideals like “people will be able to fly”, “the weather will not affect us as much”, and “different technologies will be combined”.

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[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

This is lovely:

"What I call civilized adultery will exist a great deal more in the 21st century. People will agree with each other, husbands and wives, to have adulterous affairs from time to time quite above board instead of having them secretly behind each other's backs. They will not get upset about these any more than lots of people in other societies in the past, and present, do not get upset about adulterous affairs."

The excerpt above is from an essay by Albert Ellis, featured in the 1970 book Prophecy for the Year 2000.