This is a pretty great blog that drags up articles in old science and mechanics magazines and republishes them for all the world to laugh at. This article in particular is rather amusing, as it predicts what life will be like forty years from now in the distant year of 2008.

Some correct predictions from the article

• TVs will be flat
• Computers are important in everyday life
• Much of commerce is done with credit cards
• Electronic shopping is a common reality

Some incorrect predictions from the article

• What’s an air-cushion car?
• 200 passenger rocket ships don’t fly around to other continents
• There are no hypersonic passenger planes that fly at 4,000 mph
• Houses aren’t pre built and easily added onto via “modules” and “modules” aren’t given out as common wedding gifts
• Everything isn’t made out of plastic. Seriously whoever wrote this article really thought plastic was the ultimate wave of the future.
• The average work day is not four hours
• The “pace of technological advance” is not so intense that two hours a day are used to study it by every common jobholder
• TV screens do not cover an entire wall in most homes
• A typical vacation is not a stay at an undersea resort or on a hotel satellite
• There is no “intelligence pill” that makes everyone smart
• Heart disease has not been “virtually eliminated”

All in all the article is pretty hilarious, but I think this is my favorite part.

Other conveniences ease kitchenwork. The housewife simply determines in advance her menus for the week, then slips prepackaged meals into the freezer and lets the automatic food utility do the rest. At preset times, each meal slides into the microwave oven and is cooked or thawed. The meal then is served on disposable plastic plates.

With all these amazing technological advances one thing is sure to stay the same – the kitchen is still the woman’s proper place in the home!