Saturday, May 28, 2005

FutureRama

This months Popular Mechanics SA has an article on how things will be in 2025, some still seem like science fiction... I recall listening to a radio show called The Challenge of Space and in one episode there was this trip to Mars... not so far fetched at all these days what with the two Rovers still trundling around on the Red Planet. Seems like just yesterday that this song became a hit in 1969...
In the Year 2525 - Zager and Evans - also done by - Visage - Supertramp - New Romantics & Venice Beat

In the year 2525 If man is still alive. If woman can survive, they may find.
In the year 3535 Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies. Everything you think, do and say, is in the pill you took today.
In the year 4545 Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes. You won't find a thing to chew. Nobody's gonna look at you.
In the year 5555 Your arms hanging limp at your sides. Your legs got nothing to do. Some machine doing that for you.
In the year 6565 Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife. You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too. From the bottom of a long glass tube. Whoa-oh
In the year 7510 If God's a-comin, he oughta make it by then. Maybe he'll look around himself and say. Guess it's time for the judgment day.
In the year 8510 God is gonna shake his mighty head. He'll either say.I'm pleased where man has been. Or tear it down and start again. Whoa-oh
In the year 9595 I'm kinda wonderin if man is gonna be alive. He's taken everything this old Earth can give. And he ain't put back nothing.Whoa-oh

Now it's been ten thousand years Man has cried a billion tears. For what he never knew, now man's reign is through.
But through eternal night. The twinkling of starlight. So very far away. Maybe it's only yesterday.
In the year 2525 If man is still alive. If woman can survive, they may find.
In the year 3535 {fade}

Doing a Google on "The year 2025" comes up with some amazing websites... Some even speculate us finding Aliens by 2025. Although I personally do not believe there is a possibility of this, the distances in the universe are just too huge in my view. But that is another discussion on it's own, I may elaborate on my Science Blog at some time in the future.
So as we speed through space half way through the first decade of this Century we should pause to consider where we came from and where we are heading...
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third law)

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