28 Predictions From “Retro Future” That Were Either A Hit Or A Miss

What a beauty!

I just took a ride in a Waymo self-driving car this past week. Very cool experience, and the car was a better driver than almost every human being I've ever ridden with.

Even as a kid watching this movie, I thought that was stupid, since you'd need a roll of printable 'tape' somehow stored inside that narrow watch. The only reason they did it this way was because it looked cool on screen. A sci-fi novel would have imagined something which made a lot more sense, such as seeing the words scroll across the watch face screen in place of the digital time.

Haha - while it seems a tad excessive, I fully expect that if a classroom of children was run without adult humans anywhere in the room, there would be some kids who would take the opportunity to misbehave. ;-)

I'm not sure when this image dates from, but a similar concept has been used in many sci-fi novels, movies, and television shows. It is, as of right now, the only way we have of producing artificial gravity in space.

There have been articles about vertical farms, using indoor grow lights, in order to maximize the use of land.

Nothing sexual about this image, Data1001 -- get your mind out of the gutter.

If you think there's something familiar about that image, the artwork is by Dan De Carlo, who drew many of the Archie comics I'm sure many of you read as kids.