{"id":493,"date":"2008-02-17T19:40:04","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T18:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=493"},"modified":"2008-02-17T19:40:04","modified_gmt":"2008-02-17T18:40:04","slug":"were-eight-years-late-for-rocketbelts-and-still-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=493","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re eight years late for &#8216;rocketbelts&#8217; and still waiting."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pointlessmuseum.com\/museum\/usbornebookofthefuture073.php\">The Usbourne Book of The Future, published in 1979, promised us rocket belts by the year 2000<\/a>. I demand to know where they are!<\/p>\n<p>More interestingly, most of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pointlessmuseum.com\/museum\/usbornebookofthefuture065.php\">the predictions made for the period 1980-1990 all seem to be happening now<\/a>, 20-30 years too late.<\/p>\n<p>I loved the quaint prediction of how email might work (predicted for 1991-2000, despite having already existed for a couple of years back in 1979):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hand-written letters are electronically copied, sent via a satellite link to their destination, where the incoming message is printed out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Aww, bless! That sort-of did happen, but that was fax-machines and they weren&#8217;t really used for letters, only for business documents.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pointlessmuseum.com\/museum\/usbornebookofthefutureindex.php\">more wonderful predictions about the future here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Usbourne Book of The Future, published in 1979, promised us rocket belts by the year 2000. I demand to know where they are! More interestingly, most of the predictions made for the period 1980-1990 all seem to be happening now, 20-30 years too late. I loved the quaint prediction of how email might work &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=493\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We&#8217;re eight years late for &#8216;rocketbelts&#8217; and still waiting.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-things","category-weird-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5bQqr-7X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}