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President Barack Obama and his daughters Sasha and Malia watch dolphins at Sea Life Park.
Ready to communicate with dolphins? Take a spin in your flying car? Unfortunately, the future doesn’t always turn out as predicted. Here’s a list of things we thought we’d accomplish by 2010.
I can live without “construction nukes,” but dang, that 3-day work week sure sounded nice.
Anything you’d hoped to see by 2010?
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Fixer on December 29 at 10:55 a.m.
What about the car that could get 300+ miles per gallon? Saw it in a Popular Science magazine from 1989.
I always wanted the little food capsules that you put in a re-hydrator and poof! it was reconstituted into a regular-sized meal.
And where’s the damned moonbase we’re supposed to have?
otisgexperience on December 29 at 2:01 p.m.
In one of Bush’s initial “State of the Union” addresses, he said that he wanted to see hydrogen fuel cell cars by the end of his term.
I think that was his first term. Oops.