The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be
by Grumpus on December 28th, 2009
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It’s past the year 2000. Where the hell is my flying car?!
When I was growing up, back in the days when slide rules and phonographs roamed the Earth, the Big Date we all looked forward to was the Year 2000. It was a standard metaphor for anything futuristic. The year 2000 was rampant in movie titles. Cherry 2000; Death Race 2000; 2001: A Space Odyssey; Space: 1999. What did we get? Windows 2000. Oh yip.
