The future isn’t what it used to be
by
Charlie Bess
There is an article on MSNBC from their practical futurist that I found entertaining. It was discussing the book: Follies of Science: 20th Century Visions of Our Fantastic Future. This book describes a number of predictions that were a bit off the mark.
My favorite was: Vita Radium Suppositories (High Strength): radioactive suppositories intended for daily use that “are absorbed by the walls of the colon” so that “every tissue, every organ of the body is bombarded by its health-giving electric atoms.”
Eventually that’s gonna hurt.
This MSNBC article is similar to one they created earlier: Seven flights of fancy that fizzled. I guess every couple of years you need to look at this issue for a new generation.
