The world of 2008

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What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008? (Nov, 1968)

Comments

[purplerabbits.livejournal.com]

Yes, they envisage housewives having nothing to actually do yet still being essentially housewives - boggle...

[plumsbitch.livejournal.com]

Yes, that struck me too. And although they're wrong about how those have played out, you get the same tendency now to imagine futures as new! and shiny! and different! but with gender, gender roles and sexuality not having moved on an iota.