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Title: 1989 Article
Description: What 2001 Technology Will Be Like


Mad Dog - January 30, 2006 12:35 AM (GMT)
Read It Here

Thought you might find it interesting.

TheGreatWhiteChoate - January 30, 2006 12:44 AM (GMT)
About 50/50 there. We should really put together an article on life in 2017.

Scrooge McSuck - January 30, 2006 12:45 AM (GMT)
In 2017, apes will control the earth and the human race will be forced into slavery.

Mad Dog - January 30, 2006 12:47 AM (GMT)
I found it surprising. HDTV was a good call on their part. They even mention DVR technology. The fax machine was a big miss though.

Mad Dog - January 30, 2006 12:48 AM (GMT)
I'd also like to go on record as saying there will never be wide spread use of flying cars.

Scrooge McSuck - January 30, 2006 12:58 AM (GMT)
:( I want a flying car. RIGHT NOW!

And I wonder how fucking off Back to the Future Part II is once we get to 2015. :lol: Wait... in 2015, I'll be 30. AHHHH!!!

Mad Dog - January 30, 2006 01:02 AM (GMT)
Some guy in Texas supposedly has a working flying car. He just won't fly it because if it breaks he can't repair it.

Scrooge McSuck - January 30, 2006 01:06 AM (GMT)
Uh-huh... (bullshit alarm explodes, obviously) :D

Mad Dog - January 30, 2006 01:10 AM (GMT)
It was in Popular Mechanics I believe. I think it only hovers a few feet off the ground. It's a doable thing to build. It's just that maintainance would be impossible as you'd probably break multiple parts everytime you took it in the air.

Mad Dog - January 30, 2006 01:14 AM (GMT)
Clicky

This isn't the one I was talking about but this is as close as you'll probably get to a flying car anytime soon. Hope you can afford the million dollar pricetag when it comes out.

Scrooge McSuck - January 30, 2006 01:16 AM (GMT)
I can barely afford hot wheels, let alone a flying car. :lol:

TheGreatWhiteChoate - January 30, 2006 03:11 AM (GMT)
Where's a mad scientist when you need one for flying cars, or flying monkeys?

eStragand - January 30, 2006 03:56 AM (GMT)
I'm getting a flying car...as soon as I win 10 million dollars from a burger joint contest!

(10 cool points to you if get the reference).

Wasn't Soylent Green set in 1997? All my life I had been saving box fans and fresh fruit...then 1997 rolled around and I realized it was safe to eat everything.

I remember some egghead kid (NO...I wasn't the "some egghead kid") gave a report on how the "new" audio CD's weren't necessarily the greatest thing. He recommended we wait about 3 years for the introduction of DAT audio tapes. This was around 1987...so I waited until 1990 to get a CD player. That fucker... I shoulda' tracked him down and punted him in the groin.

Scrooge McSuck - January 30, 2006 04:01 AM (GMT)
Super Troopers?

eStragand - January 30, 2006 05:01 AM (GMT)
QUOTE (Scrooge McSuck @ Jan 29 2006, 09:01 PM)
Super Troopers?

Very good. Get yourself a Liter of Cola, Scrooge.

Scrooge McSuck - January 30, 2006 05:04 AM (GMT)
Literofcola? What's that?

TheGreatWhiteChoate - January 30, 2006 05:07 AM (GMT)
Ah, Super Troopers.

Mad Dog - January 30, 2006 11:37 PM (GMT)
Just think of the disaster that flying cars would be. There are people that can't even handle basically driving in a 2D between the lines kind of environment. Think about letting those fuckers loose in the sky.

Scrooge McSuck - January 31, 2006 12:33 AM (GMT)
Breaking news: 107 year old woman crashes a flying Delorian into the White House. No one was harmed, thanks to yet another vacation to Texas by President George W. Bush XVI. And now, back to the 3078 World Series, with the New York Yankees versus Atlanta Braves.

TheGreatWhiteChoate - January 31, 2006 02:59 AM (GMT)
QUOTE (Scrooge McSuck @ Jan 30 2006, 08:33 PM)
Breaking news: 107 year old woman crashes a flying Delorian into the White House. No one was harmed, thanks to yet another vacation to Texas by President George W. Bush XVI. And now, back to the 3078 World Series, with the New York Yankees versus Atlanta Braves.

That'd be very accurate if not for the Atlanta Braves reference. By then they'll be the Atlanta Trashy Hoes, owned by Jermaine Dupree the XVI.




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