I followed the link from pedestrian and found what I want from the future. The No Calorie Beer, unless it is also Non-Alcoholic. Probably would be…they hadn’t come up with a low calorie Cheeseburger substitute yet.

Jay on September 11, 2007 at 5:45 PM

Isn’t No Calorie Non-Alchoholic Beer an oxymoron?

Much better than predictions regarding space travel and (ahem) robots.

We do have Roomba…heh.

As for milk, it may not come out of the fridge, but for a while you could order it from Amazon. *sigh* I miss those reviews. Almost as good as those for the Hasselhoff album

A thing about punch cards was in college, we would get our friends to duplicate them rather than do them ourselves for class. We had to hand them into a room to run the homework in Basic class.

Combination recipe storage box / cutting board.

And yes – it really existed.

The No Calorie Beer, unless it is also Non-Alcoholic. Probably would be…they hadn’t come up with a low calorie Cheeseburger substitute yet.

Jay on September 11, 2007 at 5:45 PM

That film was from the 60′s so beer would be non-alcoholic, but you would still get plenty high.

That blog also has some drawings from 1910 showing flying cards and video phones.

Once with 7th Grade Social Studies class, at JHS211 in Brooklyn, we went on a class trip, to some company a student in the class’ father worked for, we saw demonstrations of future telecommunications about 1972 or so. We saw the video phone, and the phone that you can program a card to dial for you. You insert a card and the phone calls the number.

Did they get all that information through the AT&T copper wires before the beakup ? Maybe they invented DSL before we knew it, LOL

MamaAJ on September 11, 2007 at 5:36 PM

Punch cards! I completely forgot about those. My dad had boxes of those things. I remember “programming” a computer in 6th grade using punch cards. Hours of work to make a stupid picture. They even had a TRS 80 in the classroom but nobody was allowed to touch it because no one knew what to do with it. We just got to look at it.

For many years, our scratch paper, grocery lists, etc. were unused punch cards. I thought the used ones were pretty dumb, since it made it harder to write on them!

The video is neat, but the announcer almost put me to sleep.

That home post office thingy looks pretty sweet. Someone send me an email when it becomes available.
corbettw on September 11, 2007 at 4:43 PM

Heh. I’ll call you on my Iphone!

And even though we’ve been promised this for years. I still can’t order milk from my refrigerator.
- The Cat

But Albertson’s will deliver to your door, lazy bum… :)

Doesn’t look like anyone making this stuff up realized you could actually record and store information, like pictures of clothes, and zip that off to a video screen.

Still no flying cars, though.

Blacklake on September 11, 2007 at 4:43 PM

And even though we’ve been promised this for years. I still can’t order milk from my refrigerator.

- The Cat

http://paleo-future.blogspot.com/2007/04/1999-ad-1967.html

“What the wife buys on her console, will paid for by her husband on his counter console.”