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This was what the future was going to be like back in about 1970.

There will be sexy space chicks wearing shiny purple wigs and sexy space chick outfits with detachable sleeves and whatnot. (why did she put on that outfit if she was just going to take it off again 30 seconds later? It makes no sense). My brother got the boxed set of this TV program - it rocks. Everyone smokes pretty much all the time, and calculators weren’t even thought of yet, so the main dude uses a slide-rule.

It’s a bit like Star-Trek in this respect… there is not one single prediction that actually came true - which is quite a result. To be completely wrong about absolutely everything. What are the odds? I mean what sort of maniac designs a pseudo-military type uniform and includes shiny purple wigs? These people are crackpots.

Here’s a German version which makes it even better than the English one

There’s 3 dimensional chess and they haven’t made the doorways big enough.

And I’ll tell you another thing : This was set in 1980. 1980? I had a digital watch with a calculator in 1980, that’s how cool I was. I don’t have the watch any more, and am (as a direct consequence) significantly less cool than I was, but that’s by the by etc. Whatever. Hey nonny nonny.

This is what 1980 was really like:

This is a Welsh band called Freur - and one of them is playing a stripey broom. They didn’t really have those in the future either - not even now, 28 years later, and to be honest, I’m not really surprised. What were they thinking? Musical Brooms? Hatstand. Freur eventually turned into Underworld who played this:

which has Obi Wan Kenobi in it before he was Alec Guinness… which happened in the 70s as well - several decades before he was younger than he turned out to be several decades later - put that in a bottle and you’ll be a gazillionaire overnight. Anti-aging juice.

That’s how you do it. Make a sequel 20 years after the original, set 20 years before the original. That way you get the future bits right as well. Probably.

Anyway, we had to use slide-rules (and logarithmic tables) at school. I’m one of those technological cusp people. We were forced (even though we knew it was stupid) to use fountain pens… but were the first year to be allowed to use calculators (which we knew weren’t stupid, but were frowned upon by teachers because they were probably just a fad). My year narrowly avoided punch cards. And so it goes.

I have this nagging doubt that my generation will be the first to see actual anti-aging juice (or a convergeance of technologies that amount to the same thing), but I’ll miss it on account of having gone out on too many drunken benders.