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When your parents were teenagers

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Wannabe_a_techie Original post #1
Jan 12, 2008 at 3:24 AM
When your parents were teenagers in 1970s or 1980s....what were they thinking about the future?

Checkout this funny article on Digg!

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Crazy fashion ideas for the future (i.e. today!)
And some serious predictions:

You'll probably be carrying around a cordless telephone in your pocket. Anyone who wants to reach you can dial your number, and the call will be forwarded. No matter where you are—at the supermarket, at the beach, in Beirut, in the Alps—the call will find you.

William Sharwell, VP, AT&T 1980
prasad_den
Jan 12, 2008 at 7:29 AM
:D :D Nice article...!! Fashion predictions are especially hilarious....!
Simple_Graduate
Jan 14, 2008 at 11:24 AM
Funny.

This NASA guy is unbelievable:

Satellites in space measuring 30 square miles will convert sunlight into electricity. By the second half of the '80s, the first private tourist will be in space, and by the '90s, private excursions will be frequent, though expensive. Eventually, there will be classrooms in space

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satyamy
satyamy #4
Jan 14, 2008 at 11:27 AM
Article is Correct
enticer86
Jan 14, 2008 at 11:50 AM
Lol... am feeling like sharing this with my parents.