[Vrondi]

Nobody talks about "life in the 22nd century" in the way they talked about "life in the 21st century" in recent decades, because for the past 24 years we've been at the _beginning_ of a century. Once we get halfway through the 21st century, the talk about "life in the 22nd century" will really ramp up.

[asadotzler]

You apparently never learned about the 1939 New York World's Fair's "The World of Tomorrow" expo. That didn't wait for the century half way point. How about the 1900 Paris Expo and the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, which both also featured predictions and prototypes of future technologies that got everyone from workers to sci-fi writers focused on flying cars and moving sidewalks.

Hardly anyone on this site has any sense of history and people just make shit up about the past. How sad to see a once intellectual forum turn into another Reddit or Twitter.

[TeMPOraL]

I've heard of those - and while I never really dug into details of what was presented or why, I believe I got the overall vibe of those expos - and that vibe is, sadly, missing today.

[gilbetron]

Except people in the first quarter of the 20th century did talk about the 21st century.

https://www.upworthy.com/11-ridiculous-future-predictions-fr...