…I remember reading books from the 1910’s through the 1930’s, in the back room of the local library, that predicted what life’d be like in, say, 1975 or 2000.\u00a0 The technology predictions, of course, were the funniest in retrospect; dreams of personal aircraft buzzing people about on sky highways, robot servants, automated houses looked like the quaint noodlings of a bunch of grade school kids, to my sophisticated eighth-grade perspective in 1977.<\/p>\n
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