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This sounds like something I saw in a restaurant in Philly years ago - the bathroom had walls that would get opaque when you went in and locked the door. When no one was in it you could see in. I decided I really didn't need to go that badly - with my luck it would have decided to malfunction.
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Hey, Chester Gould author of the Dick Tracy comic strip came up with some accurate predictions also.
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My Kitchen does that, your's doesn't?
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The kitchen stuff is not that far off. We have coffee makers and bread baking machines that can be programmed to have ready for us hot coffee and fresh bread when we wake up in the morning. We don't have machines that make our eggs or cook our bacon for us - it's possible to do, but no one really wants it. We can, however, grab our breakfast from the freezer, and put it in the microwave or toaster. We do have semi-prepared frozen meals. There are bags of frozen pasta and vegetables that are intended for you to add your own chicken. Frozen food has come a long way in the last 50 years.
As far as lighting goes, he's wrong in imagining windows would go out of style, people like large windows with lots of natural light. While we don't use the panels that he imagined, we do have a lot more lighting options than we had 50 years ago, and you can buy windows where the tint can be adjusted. He talks about lights in whatever color you want, and you can do that, there's just not a lot of demand for colored lights. |
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And another science fiction writer of the old days predicted the internet.
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He didn't need to, it already existed. The microwave oven went on the market in 1955, although the countertop microwave didn't go onto the market until 1967. The TV dinner had been on the market since 1953, but he didn't predict the improvement in quality of frozen food, instead imagining that we would have machines cooking our bacon and eggs. So, instead of bacon and eggs cooked by a machine, we get Hot Pockets. I sort of miss the aluminum tray from TV dinners.
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Oh, that's true.
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