http://blog.teledyn.com/node/2560 Comments for "Life in the Year 2008?" en http://blog.teledyn.com/node/2560 <p><a href="http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/24/what-will-life-be-like-in-the-year-2008/"><img src="http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/qf/c/MechanixIllustrated/11-1968/forty_years_future/med_forty_years_future_1.jpg" class="right"/></a>The future from the past is always an easy target, and this one, 2008 as seen from 1968, is dedicated to <a href="http://bowjamesbow.ca/">James Bow</a> who, last I checked, is still awaiting his promised flying car. One thing they got right, and they got quite a few, is the insane inane immediacy we attach to cellular business communications:</p> <blockquote><p><cite class="blog-source">Suddenly your TV phone buzzes. A business associate wants a sketch of a new kind of impeller your firm is putting out for sports boats. You reach for your attache case and draw the diagram with a pencil-thin infrared flashlight on what looks like a TV screen lining the back of the case. The diagram is relayed to a similar screen in your associate%u2019s office, 200 mi. away. He jabs a button and a fixed copy of the sketch rolls out of the device. He wishes you good luck at the coming meeting and signs off.</cite><br /> <i class="blog-source">[ <a href="http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/24/what-will-life-be-like-in-the-year-2008/">What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008?</a> ]</i></p></blockquote> http://blog.teledyn.com/node/2560#comments wonderful world Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:28:17 -0400 mrG 2560 at http://blog.teledyn.com