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Old 01-02-2008, 20:00   #1
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Default Take a trip to the future... the Year 2000!

http://www.pointlessmuseum.com/museu...utureindex.php

With the Usborne Book Of The Future! Some great lines in there..

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TV-Telephones should be a practical reality by the mid 80s
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High Powered lasers become standard issue on the battlefield replacing many guns and cannons.
The Replicator is developed - The device can make practically anything using material from chemicals stored nearby. The complex instructions required are masterminded by computer; laser beams place atoms and molecules into position to build any object.
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Old 01-02-2008, 20:03   #2
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We really over estimated ourselves
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Old 01-02-2008, 20:19   #3
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To be fair the computers in the home bit isn't far off, apart from the whole Star Wars style robot servants... On the whole though, optimistic!
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I want a risto
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Old 01-02-2008, 21:03   #5
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I had a niggling feeling you might
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