Comments on: The World Will Be Wonderful In The Year 2000! http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/2012/02/the-world-will-be-wonderful-in-the-year-2000/ A history of the future that never was Fri, 17 May 2013 21:40:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Farley http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/2012/02/the-world-will-be-wonderful-in-the-year-2000/#comment-373 Farley Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:19:26 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/?p=748#comment-373 "The world population will controlled through improved birth control methods, with cheap, harmless and temporarily effective anti-fertility compounds added as one saw fit to the diet." Apprarently, this Von Braun guy was not an American religious fundie. “The world population will controlled through improved birth control methods, with cheap, harmless and temporarily effective anti-fertility compounds added as one saw fit to the diet.”

Apprarently, this Von Braun guy was not an American religious fundie.

]]> By: JohncWright http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/2012/02/the-world-will-be-wonderful-in-the-year-2000/#comment-369 JohncWright Sun, 04 Mar 2012 16:46:48 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/?p=748#comment-369 It not so much about our scientific or technological progress,but more about how socially we are no more advanced than the early Greeks or Romans............. It not so much about our scientific or technological progress,but more about how socially we are no more advanced than the early Greeks or Romans………….

]]> By: Sams http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/2012/02/the-world-will-be-wonderful-in-the-year-2000/#comment-364 Sams Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:21:54 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/?p=748#comment-364 The 'amazing increase in prosperity/standard of living' is now revealed to be the product of a global Ponzi scheme and entirely mendacious spin doctoring on the same scale. Not just a South Sea Bubble, but a Planet Earth Bubble - from which it will take decades to recover. In other words, the glowing predictions of these august scientists have failed to materialize. Mainly because (and I'm not an eco-freak!) science has not developed or not been allowed to develop sustainable energy sources like solar power. But then free energy is free by and large - none of the Ponzi scheme architects would have been able to get rich as they have...trading humanity's future for their short-term gain. The ‘amazing increase in prosperity/standard of living’ is now revealed to be the product of a global Ponzi scheme and entirely mendacious spin doctoring on the same scale. Not just a South Sea Bubble, but a Planet Earth Bubble – from which it will take decades to recover.

In other words, the glowing predictions of these august scientists have failed to materialize. Mainly because (and I’m not an eco-freak!) science has not developed or not been allowed to develop sustainable energy sources like solar power.

But then free energy is free by and large – none of the Ponzi scheme architects would have been able to get rich as they have…trading humanity’s future for their short-term gain.

]]> By: Mike Franklin http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/2012/02/the-world-will-be-wonderful-in-the-year-2000/#comment-363 Mike Franklin Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:13:51 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/?p=748#comment-363 I have to agree with commentator RC (Comment #1) regarding the naivety; we want to trust those we elevate into power but the human condition continues to breed true. With each headline, we find that this 21st century is clearly dedicated to the eroding of individual rights and freedoms while creating more centralized authority. Beyond that, we don't have a flying car of any kind, our space program here in the US has been all but gutted by our current leader and war appears just around the corner. Oh yes, it does make one yearn for the good old days of the Cold War. I have to agree with commentator RC (Comment #1) regarding the naivety; we want to trust those we elevate into power but the human condition continues to breed true. With each headline, we find that this 21st century is clearly dedicated to the eroding of individual rights and freedoms while creating more centralized authority.

Beyond that, we don’t have a flying car of any kind, our space program here in the US has been all but gutted by our current leader and war appears just around the corner.

Oh yes, it does make one yearn for the good old days of the Cold War.

]]> By: Con http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/2012/02/the-world-will-be-wonderful-in-the-year-2000/#comment-362 Con Thu, 01 Mar 2012 11:08:22 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/?p=748#comment-362 'While the world will be changed beyond recognition in the year 2000, say these scientists, man will remain much the strange and unpredictable creature he is today. There will still be many bemoaning the passing of the “good old days.”' Yeah in the year 2000, people will be all like "These atomic-powered cars suck! I'm sick of having to wear a lead suit when I drive to work! I miss my good old internal combustion engine!". ‘While the world will be changed beyond recognition in the year 2000, say these scientists, man will remain much the strange and unpredictable creature he is today. There will still be many bemoaning the passing of the “good old days.”’

Yeah in the year 2000, people will be all like “These atomic-powered cars suck! I’m sick of having to wear a lead suit when I drive to work! I miss my good old internal combustion engine!”.

]]> By: Josh http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/2012/02/the-world-will-be-wonderful-in-the-year-2000/#comment-361 Josh Thu, 01 Mar 2012 01:56:18 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/?p=748#comment-361 Despite their mockability, quite a few of these forecasts were accurate -- even this one, which was optimistic indeed: "There will not be another world war during this century. The next 50 years will witness an amazing increase in wealth and prosperity, with a continuous rise in the world standard of living." Despite their mockability, quite a few of these forecasts were accurate — even this one, which was optimistic indeed: “There will not be another world war during this century. The next 50 years will witness an amazing increase in wealth and prosperity, with a continuous rise in the world standard of living.”

]]> By: RC http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/2012/02/the-world-will-be-wonderful-in-the-year-2000/#comment-360 RC Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:37:03 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/?p=748#comment-360 The constant thing in these predictions is a complete naivete about society and politics. "The size of families and nations will be regulated at will." At whose will? The constant thing in these predictions is a complete naivete about society and politics. “The size of families and nations will be regulated at will.” At whose will?

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