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Tue
2
Jun '09

The Astounding World of the Future

What an amazingly prescient vision in this moving picture show.

via Eric James Stone

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4 Comments

  1. Karen Wester Newton Karen Wester Newton on 02.06.2009 at 09:42 (Reply)

    Was the sound track for real? If so, it was amazingly dead-on except for the flying cars that trip everyone up.

    1. Mary Robinette Kowal Mary Robinette Kowal on 02.06.2009 at 09:46 (Reply)

      I don’t think so. There’s a script credit at the end, so I’m pretty sure it’s just written in the style of one of those newscasts.

    2. Michael Livingston Michael Livingston on 02.06.2009 at 13:44 (Reply)

      Aye, the script is brilliantly fake. One of the “script consultants” is listed as Robert Siegel, who I believe is a former editor for The Onion (naturally).

  2. Kelvin Kao Kelvin Kao on 03.06.2009 at 00:35 (Reply)

    Unfortunately, here in California, future man can no longer legally check his home port on his space beam communicator while travelling in his transport pod. Le sigh.

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