Description of 250 consumer products found in a book called 'Future Stuff.' It was published in 1989, and it was about products that 'should be in your supermarket, hardware store, pharmacy, department store, or otherwise available by the year 2000.'
It was based on interviews with the people who were working on these products. It made concrete predictions, with dates and estimated prices. The predictions were more or less wrong.
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It's too bad that the year 2000 has already gone, that was such a great year to make predictions for. I think people started in 1901 to speculate what the year 2000 would look like. Now what do we have to look forward to, 2149? The year 3000? Ah, the magic of round numbers.
This is unreal. Just last week, I took a bunch of books to the library to put on the give away shelf and this was one of them.
I read it again before giving it away. It was amazing that a lot of this stuff could have been very useful and wasn't implemented for whatever reason.
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