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03-19-2014, 02:46 PM
8 Bizarre Futurist Predictions That Never Came True
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Our visions of the future have always been more complex than hoverboards (http://mashable.com/2014/03/04/huvr-videos/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) and self-lacing sneakers.
Sure, there were the various tropes from many bad sci-fi ****** (and a few good ones), such as food in pill form, flying cars, personal jetpacks and robot butlers. But futurists also envisioned brave new worlds that have since been entirely forgotten — the death of the letters C, X and Q, for example, **t to mention the use of discarded underwear to manufacture candy (ew).
See also: 7 Scary Accurate Vintage Ads That Predicted the Future (http://mashable.com/2013/12/22/vintage-videos-predict-future/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
We doff our caps to Paleofuture (http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/) for making these future-happy predictions from years hence so easily available. Below, we've resuscitated a few of our favorites, which have yet to come true Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/03/19/false-future-predictions/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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Our visions of the future have always been more complex than hoverboards (http://mashable.com/2014/03/04/huvr-videos/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) and self-lacing sneakers.
Sure, there were the various tropes from many bad sci-fi ****** (and a few good ones), such as food in pill form, flying cars, personal jetpacks and robot butlers. But futurists also envisioned brave new worlds that have since been entirely forgotten — the death of the letters C, X and Q, for example, **t to mention the use of discarded underwear to manufacture candy (ew).
See also: 7 Scary Accurate Vintage Ads That Predicted the Future (http://mashable.com/2013/12/22/vintage-videos-predict-future/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
We doff our caps to Paleofuture (http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/) for making these future-happy predictions from years hence so easily available. Below, we've resuscitated a few of our favorites, which have yet to come true Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/03/19/false-future-predictions/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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