tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2489168146200487747.post106381652811935556..comments2024-01-30T13:57:40.271+11:00Comments on LoveCats DownUnder: Welcome to the futureAlly Blakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17352564320902831489noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2489168146200487747.post-9580044130104880812012-01-02T03:41:46.798+11:002012-01-02T03:41:46.798+11:00PS I love the Mayan comic.PS I love the Mayan comic.Kaeleehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07897964695988614355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2489168146200487747.post-81368068764081953682012-01-02T03:40:33.338+11:002012-01-02T03:40:33.338+11:00Very interesting post. I was 9 in 1957 and TV was...Very interesting post. I was 9 in 1957 and TV was just coming on strong. My grandmother had one but we didn't. Our neighbors still came and used our phone. I don't think I thought about the future much except that I wanted to fly somewhere. I've done quite a bit of that and I still want to do more. It took my husband and I a long time to buy a computer but now I don't know what we would do without one. Had our internet provider go down a couple of times between Christmas and New Years ~ It was a bit unsettling.Kaeleehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07897964695988614355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2489168146200487747.post-193780137256066002011-12-27T23:43:42.655+11:002011-12-27T23:43:42.655+11:00Sharon, that's up there with my favourite Bill...Sharon, that's up there with my favourite Bill Gates quote from around 1991 - "64k should be enough for anyone!"<br /><br />I wonder tho whether whoever visioned every home having one could have conceived of every home having multiple and every person carrying one around with them in their pocket.Nikki Loganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12895929864616916672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2489168146200487747.post-15915457944340072782011-12-27T23:37:58.593+11:002011-12-27T23:37:58.593+11:00Rachel & Emily - its so easy to take it for gr...Rachel & Emily - its so easy to take it for granted, isn't it. Yet once you start thinking about it....<br /><br /> I'd be in some real trouble if judgement day (terminator style) came. All my machines would rise up and enslave me!Nikki Loganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12895929864616916672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2489168146200487747.post-71761582564945301002011-12-27T23:27:25.428+11:002011-12-27T23:27:25.428+11:00Maybe that's the thing Robyn.... the likley fu...Maybe that's the thing Robyn.... the likley future is so miserable we fixate on the cool things as a distraction. Id forgotten about the clothes washer. Awesome!Nikki Loganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12895929864616916672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2489168146200487747.post-22783069878713273662011-12-27T23:22:17.357+11:002011-12-27T23:22:17.357+11:00Ah Marybelle - so true. I do remember thinking 30 ...Ah Marybelle - so true. I do remember thinking 30 was *so* extraordinarily old...Nikki Loganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12895929864616916672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2489168146200487747.post-41543337706419847582011-12-27T15:49:52.392+11:002011-12-27T15:49:52.392+11:00Nikki, I love your RoboVac... alas I'd have to...Nikki, I love your RoboVac... alas I'd have to de-clutter my office before the poor thing could find it's way around! Maybe that should be my New Year resolution... I don't usually make one but... ;)<br /><br />I'd love a car that folded into a briefcase a la Jetsons! No more parking fines or searching for parking spaces!<br /><br />One of the things that stands out to me is someone saying that one day every home if not every person would have a computer... at the time I couldn't see that I'd EVER want a computer! How things change!<br /><br />:)<br />SharonSharon Archerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06836969154744451542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2489168146200487747.post-86595975212425326592011-12-27T09:41:25.091+11:002011-12-27T09:41:25.091+11:00At nine I was obsessed by Enid Blyton and Biggles ...At nine I was obsessed by Enid Blyton and Biggles -- don't think I was looking forward at all, just back!<br /><br />We certainly have advanced, though, when you list it like that. I think at nine that we still had a hand wringer washing machine and we only had TV for a few hours a day. Things have certainly changed!Emily Mayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16958085922194448672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2489168146200487747.post-21094805981658466882011-12-27T08:35:24.326+11:002011-12-27T08:35:24.326+11:00Nikki, I hadn't thought about our advances tha...Nikki, I hadn't thought about our advances that way until you pointed it out. I guess because technological developments happen incrementally, we get used to them, but if you look back, we really have got some amazing things!Rachel Baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08200504088343160284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2489168146200487747.post-75928872817328748302011-12-26T21:05:56.929+11:002011-12-26T21:05:56.929+11:00When I was nine I watched the movie Soylent Green ...When I was nine I watched the movie Soylent Green (loosely adapted from a novel). The future was depicted as very grim; humans hadn't gone forward but rather had destroyed practically everything. <br />I'd grown up with The Jetsons and loved the way they whizzed around on space highways, and dirty clothes went in one side of a machine and came out clean and pressed on the other. Heaven, or what!!<br />But since Soylent I confess I've had a fascination with dystopian views of the future.<br />Yep. I liked The Hunger Games =)Robyn Gradyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16397395873217056254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2489168146200487747.post-15527776110975394562011-12-26T18:44:31.970+11:002011-12-26T18:44:31.970+11:00When I was nine I had no notion of seeing past the...When I was nine I had no notion of seeing past the next day. So totally self-absorbed at that age. So unaware of the BIG picture. I did grow out of this, thankfully.Mary Prestonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02201076939557413255noreply@blogger.com