The Future: One thing you were hoping for / one thing you never expected

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Tue, 2006-04-04 13:15

The Future's a rum business. You spend years waiting for it to arrive and then, before you know it, it's passed.

Here's a little task for you all. I want you all to think of one thing you were always looking ofrward to 'in the future' which hasn't arrived and one that you never even thought of that has.

I'll go first:

One thing I was hoping for:

Zero Gravity Holidays. Like Butlins, with activities for the kids and themed restaurants, but in SPACE!

One thing I never expected:

Bluetooth headsets... People walking around, talking to themselves with a single flashing light above their ear... Brrrrrrrr, irritating cyborg alert, irritating cyborg alert!

Cheers,

Mark Brown, Editor, www.ABCtales.com

Tue, 2006-04-04 13:32

Enzo

Never expected: More than just bluetooth mobiles...wireless everything! iPods Sky plus (don't have it yet) Mobile Phones and all the things they can do Basic Instinct 2 (that one, I never hoped for - see: Bill Hicks) Enzo.. www.thedevilbetweenus.com

Tue, 2006-04-04 13:43

rokkitnite

I genuinely hoped we'd have more quirky robot butlers by now. I failed to anticipate the ubiquity of panninis.

Tue, 2006-04-04 14:14

hox

Hoped for: Rocket-powered Slippers Never expected: New Labour, Microwave chips, Big Brother. On the subjet of big brother I remember in the seventies an american satirist talking about the cheapening of TV. He said that one day there would be a game show where the contestants had to undercut each other bidding to shoot a puppy. Whoever was prepared to shoot the puppy for the lowest amount won the game. We're almost there folks.........

Tue, 2006-04-04 14:22

Foster

Thanks to maddan, I spent a good part of yesterday afternoon shooting a puppy...

Tue, 2006-04-04 14:29

maddan

thought I'd be rich and famous never expected to get older

Tue, 2006-04-04 14:45

tom_saunders

I imagined that one day I'd be "there" and I'd know what being "there" felt like. I never thought I'd end up as a writer. Took me 35 years to start. If you want to buy my book, visit my blog: http://whatisthisstrangeplace.blogspot.com/

Tue, 2006-04-04 15:08

josiedog

I thought, that in the 21st century, i would be married with kids living in a big house in the country. Well bollocks to that. I still want my hover car and robot slaves. I used to watch star trek (spock and kirk) and long for one of those transmitters. Pure fantasy, i thought. Well, fuck me if my mobile phone don't do all that and more! And I still aint impressed by it most days.

Tue, 2006-04-04 15:22

Brooklands

Was definitely expecting some sort of personal hover vehicle. A kind of hover buggy. Traffic jams in the sky and all that. Wasn't expecting - in fact, was vehemently opposed - to being a teacher. Joe

Tue, 2006-04-04 15:45

#10

iceman

Hoped for: Holidays in Space Never expected: another total solar eclipse before I was 50.

Tue, 2006-04-04 15:57

#11

Radio Denver

I never expected things to be pretty much the same as they were 40 years ago.

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Tue, 2006-04-04 16:45

#12

poetjude

Expected a nice little house for meself - hasn't arrived yet. Never expected sobriety - has arrived.

Tue, 2006-04-04 18:49

#13

styx

Don't expect sobriety - it's arrived!

Tue, 2006-04-04 19:00

#14

josiedog

Hmm, never thought I'd get clean, never thought I'd want to!

Wed, 2006-04-05 15:14

#15

camus

Was hoping to be rich and famous so that I could stick two fingers up to my secondary school maths teacher. Didn't expect to go back into education in my 30's.

Wed, 2006-04-05 15:57

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Juliet OC

i hoped that one day we would be able to teleport ourselves wherever we wanted to go - this thought was a regular one as my parents enjoyed long drives through Europe! I never actually thougt you would have TV's in cars!!! That would have helped pass the tedium. Juliet

Juliet

Wed, 2006-04-05 16:47

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Moimo

was hoping for a big house and cash a plenty, never expected to be alive, still dunno how I managed it, to be married with kids. nobody

Wed, 2006-04-05 22:30

#18

ely_whitley

video phones developing phones that you can use to speak to anyone else in the world at any time from anywhere on the planet, and using them to write to each other... badly

Thu, 2006-04-06 20:16

#19

j.r.c

To have been a better creative writer than I am. To be heading in a totally unexpected direction.

Sun, 2006-04-09 16:59

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2Lou

When I was fifteen, I remember sitting with my mate on the top deck of a 166 - (one of us a Chrissy Hind impression, one a Siouxsie Sioux) as we decided our earnest hope was never to end up married with 2.5 kids, working at a boring job until we waddled off to play bingo together at 70. What I didnâ€™t expect to happen was to end up being married with kids and no career and finding it anything but the boring waste of a life that it appeared to us from the top of the bus. I'm still gutted for my Siouxsie Sioux friend who didn't get a chance to do anything at all after twenty-one. I think about her often. I reckon we would have had a laugh at bingo.

~
www.fabulousmother.co.uk

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