BCH Blog » Friday http://blog.beyondcurrenthorizons.org.uk A scrapbook of progress, ideas, emerging findings, and developments from the Beyond Current Horizons programme Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:10:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Past futures http://blog.beyondcurrenthorizons.org.uk/2009/01/09/222/ http://blog.beyondcurrenthorizons.org.uk/2009/01/09/222/#comments Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:32:57 +0000 Dan Sutch http://blog.beyondcurrenthorizons.org.uk/?p=222 Predictions and forecasts of possible futures, even when based on the latest research or invention can sometimes appear ludicrous.  Past predictions can often seem laughable for appearing to be so incorrect, but although they may not have come to fruition as expected, there are elements of many past predictions that were pointing to an appropriate field, if not a specific device or activity.

A quick Friday post then to point to the Chicago Tribune’s images of past ‘high tech’ gadets.  The weekend homework that accompanies the images – think about stories from science fiction, predictions and forecasts you have heard and look for where parts of them have been realised.

A light-hearted review of some of those are answered in Where’s my jetpack?.

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