{"id":3636,"date":"2010-01-14T07:55:22","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T11:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=3636"},"modified":"2010-01-13T11:07:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T15:07:37","slug":"2010-living-in-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=3636","title":{"rendered":"2010: Living in the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/2010-149x150.jpg\" alt=\"Computer Room\" title=\"Computer Room\" width=\"149\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Years ago, Daniel Sinker bought a children&#8217;s book at his town library&#8217;s book sale.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Written in 1972, it had been withdrawn from the library&#8217;s collection by the mid-80s, when I picked it up. I&#8217;ve somehow managed to hang onto it for 25 years and now, suddenly, here we are: 2010. I&#8217;m reproducing this long out-of-print book here to see how we&#8217;re doing. Are we really living in the future?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s posted scans of all of the pages, along with a transcript of the text and his own comments about the predictions therein.  As with most decades-old predictions, some of them are fairly accurate and many are hilariously wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Sinker is also on a quest to find the author and ask him (respectfully) how he thinks his fictional 2010 stacks up against the real thing.  It&#8217;ll be interesting to hear his response.<\/p>\n<p>(Also, I&#8217;m totally calling my computer a &#8220;vision desk&#8221; from now on.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2010book.tumblr.com\/post\/310745454\/cover\">Link<\/a> <i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago, Daniel Sinker bought a children&#8217;s book at his town library&#8217;s book sale. Written in 1972, it had been withdrawn from the library&#8217;s collection by the mid-80s, when I picked it up. I&#8217;ve somehow managed to hang onto it for 25 years and now, suddenly, here we are: 2010. I&#8217;m reproducing this long out-of-print [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3636"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3640,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions\/3640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}