I just heard the Steely Dan song- IGY and was reading about how an American astronaut could be left stranded up in the ISS because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
It made me think of a TV show I watched as a young lad when it aired in 1967 and was narrated by The Most Trusted Man in America- Walter Cronkite. At that time, life changing moments such as, "One small step for man..." and the TET Offensive were still in the future but close. There was a lot of buzz about the promise of the world's future through technological marvels that were either in R&D or in the conceptual stages.
Before books like Alvin Toffler's: Future Shock or Martin Ford's: Rise of The Robots, we had Cronkite's 21st Century TV show. It was neither utopian nor dystopian but fairly balanced as to where our never-ending quest for better living through advances in technology can take us.
It's often stated that the one thing we've learned from predicting the future is that we really aren't very good at it. But I have to give credit to this show by how close it got. After all, the 21st century is just 21 years old and the relentless march of technology has not stopped. I'm still hoping that flying car will get parked in my garage some day.
It made me think of a TV show I watched as a young lad when it aired in 1967 and was narrated by The Most Trusted Man in America- Walter Cronkite. At that time, life changing moments such as, "One small step for man..." and the TET Offensive were still in the future but close. There was a lot of buzz about the promise of the world's future through technological marvels that were either in R&D or in the conceptual stages.
Before books like Alvin Toffler's: Future Shock or Martin Ford's: Rise of The Robots, we had Cronkite's 21st Century TV show. It was neither utopian nor dystopian but fairly balanced as to where our never-ending quest for better living through advances in technology can take us.
It's often stated that the one thing we've learned from predicting the future is that we really aren't very good at it. But I have to give credit to this show by how close it got. After all, the 21st century is just 21 years old and the relentless march of technology has not stopped. I'm still hoping that flying car will get parked in my garage some day.