Comments on: The Year 1975 (As Predicted By 1962)

By: Em Ayer

Em Ayer — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:02:59 +0000

i’ve seen that general motors promo! it was a MST3K short- and one of the best ones to date.

By: Big MIke

Big MIke — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:04:16 +0000

And where’s my jet pack?

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:39:17 +0000

Aww, when will these wonderful gadgets be made ? Why is our current technology so slow ?

By: Greg Steinmayer

Greg Steinmayer — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:47:54 +0000

I remember a wonderful scene from a General Motors promotional movie (I think it was from the 1955 Motorama) that shows a dream kitchen of the future (starring Carolyn Jones, Morticia Adams herself!). As the woman dances around the futuristric kitchen, she prepares the ingredients for a cake, placing them in a bowl which she puts under the clear acrylic dome of the futuristic oven, which closes. The woman dances around some, and returns. Not only has the magic oven baked the cake, it has put it on a platter, frosted it, decorated it and put candles on it! So wonderfully absurd, I want an oven that does that!

By: Kevin McDonald

Kevin McDonald — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:09:27 +0000

Can I put toaster bacon in my music sphere oven?

By: k2

k2 — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:58:58 +0000

Did you notice the “X on a rotated cube” logo on tthe bacon package? Reminds me of the Next computer logo — another vision of the future that somehow missed the mark… (though it does sorta live on in Mac OS X).

By: Roger

Roger — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:08:41 +0000

Electronics isn’t my forte, but wouldn’t there be a risk of short-circuiting if one tried to toast foil?

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:06:51 +0000

Maybe it’s just me but I seem to remember a lesson about not sticking metallic items in a toaster…

By: Melissa

Melissa — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:58:13 +0000

I totally want toaster bacon.

By: JaneM

JaneM — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:52:16 +0000

I want that bacon for my toaster! No greasy mess (unless there is a pinhole in the packaging at which time my toaster will catch on fire!!!