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How about Escape from New York, where Snake Plissken paraglides to the top of the abandoned World Trade Center?
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As a mate of mine pointed out, that’s set before 2001, so it counts 
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There’s the long running British Sci-Fi comic 2000AD
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The title may be “out of date”, but we’ve still got two or three decades to merge the cities of the East and West coast of the US into Megacities 1 and 2 respectively!
[QUOTE=Czarcasm]
I should mention that the theme has a subtitle- Where The Hell Is My Flying Car? 
I’m going to get as many old magazines as possible, like “Popular Science”, that displayed flying cars in a futuristic setting, and put them on display.
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Try getting in touch with a film rental agency or american movie classics - they kept showing all sorts of science preview shows about ‘house of the future’ and ‘cars of the future’ and ‘kitchens of teh future’
There is some book I used to have about the house of the future written in the 60s and set in the 80s about the ‘electronic harth’ as teh center of life in the living room, basically the equivalent of digital cable, tivo, computer and game console. If I can stay awake today Ill see if I can google it. [recovering from a parathyroidectomy and am still sort of out of it]
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There is some book I used to have about the house of the future written in the 60s and set in the 80s about the ‘electronic harth’ as teh center of life in the living room . . .
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One prophecy that has come to pass!
For a bit of humor, show some of these
http://www.nbc.com/nbc/Late_Night_with_Conan_OBrien/intheyear2000/
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One prophecy that has come to pass!
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Very true=)
and OMG I just read my post … I apologize for the horrid spelling, I should not post while still groggy from meds…
And I found it - Roy Mason, Lane Jennings, and Robert Evans (1983). Xanadu: The Computerized Home of Tomorrow and How It Can Be Yours Today!. Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books, 124–125. ISBN 0-87491-701-8.
I was going to suggest Damnation Alley, but I couldn’t find anything that references when the flick is set. I’m guessing it wasn’t supposed to be much more than 30 years after the year it was released ('77).
The ‘rise of the machines’ predicted in Terminator and Terminator 2 quite obviously came to pass. That should have happened in '95. (I didn’t see the third one, so I have no idea how they dealt with the changes in history made in 2.)
And while it didn’t come from fiction (book or film), I should think you ought to give a nod at your convention about one of the goofiest ‘sci-fi’ notions of the past 50 years to be outdated - Y2K!
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For a bit of humor, show some of these
http://www.nbc.com/nbc/Late_Night_with_Conan_OBrien/intheyear2000/
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“Scientists will discover that pointing a flashlight at your face, and singing in a high-pitched voice, casues impotence.”
And they cut back to the band guy and he can barely sing the next refrain because he’s laughing so hard.
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And while it didn’t come from fiction (book or film), I should think you ought to give a nod at your convention about one of the goofiest ‘sci-fi’ notions of the past 50 years to be outdated - Y2K!
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I plan on having a couple of panels on Y2K, one on what went right, and another mock panel on how Y2K brought down civilization.
You might want to have a note or two on John Wyndhams Day of the Triffids (although not specified, assumed to be set in the early 1950s) and, although i can’t lay hands on my copy of The Best of Henry Kuttner right this minute, many of his stories might bear mentioning; Mimsy Were the Borogoves, the Hogben series, etc.
Well, don’t fprget that in 1987 NASA launched the last of its deep space probes, Ranger-1. Thats when Captain William “Buck” Rogers was lost and frozen for 500 years.
[QUOTE=Jolly Roger]
Well, don’t fprget that in 1987 NASA launched the last of its deep space probes, Ranger-1. Thats when Captain William “Buck” Rogers was lost and frozen for 500 years.
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It happened secretly and no one noticed.
I don’t know if this is available, but in 1983 I saw a movie named 1983 that was made in 1933, then put away. It was an attempt to predict what advances would be made in 50 years.
The 1983 showings were the first ever. I saw it at the La Jolla Museum of Modern Art.
IIRC, Vivien Leigh was the star.
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I am definitely interested.
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Here are three books that might be useful
The Year 2000, edited by Harry Harrison, Doubleday 1970.
Review by Evelyn Leeper
The City 2000 AD: Urban Life Through Science Fiction, ed. by Ralph Clem, Martin Harry Greenberg and Joseph Olander. Fawcett Crest 2-2892-4, July 1976.
Contents here Scroll down.
2020 Vision, edited by Jerry Pournelle, Avon 18390, Feb. 1974.
Contents
I’m sure the contents for the first one are there also.
I have all three of these sitting right here
I read a battletank genre novel (fiction) from around '93 about a border war between America and Mexico set, IIRC, in this contemporary time period. I can’t recall the author or the novel but it was some pulp fiction that I picked up at a truck stop. I remember the battle for Brownsville was pretty gruesome. Tom Clancy genre, ironic considering the immigration debate was one of the flashpoints in this future war.
Or for that matter, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six novels, are an example of a lost future found… predictive?
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Try getting in touch with a film rental agency or american movie classics - they kept showing all sorts of science preview shows about ‘house of the future’ and ‘cars of the future’ and ‘kitchens of teh future’
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What about looking into the archives of old World’s Fairs? They always made predictions about the future. I still want the house of the future where, instead of washing dishes, you threw them into a melter that would burn off the dirt and melt the dish. When you needed a new one, you punched in the style and type you needed, and the new dish would appear. Easy recycling. (I think that was in the General Electric exhbit at the New York World’s Fair in the 60’s.)
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I read a battletank genre novel (fiction) from around '93 about a border war between America and Mexico set, IIRC, in this contemporary time period. I can’t recall the author or the novel but it was some pulp fiction that I picked up at a truck stop. I remember the battle for Brownsville was pretty gruesome.
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Probably thinking of The Texas-Israeli War: 1999 by Saunders and Waldrop.
[QUOTE=Tapiotar]
I still want the house of the future where, instead of washing dishes, you threw them into a melter that would burn off the dirt and melt the dish. When you needed a new one, you punched in the style and type you needed, and the new dish would appear. Easy recycling.
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Hmph! That’s for peasants and savages! I want a Star Trek matter-replicator kitchen (presumably it can not only make meals and dishes, but unmake the leavings and reconvert them to energy).
[QUOTE=Knowed Out]
Don’t know if this counts, but the old Dick Tracy strips had gadgets that were considered futuristic, but were used in present-time context.
Like the ever popular Two-Way Wrist Radio, which predates teleconferencing. A 1930’s strip had a telephoto machine which predates the fax. And of course, they had those one-man jet cars that looked like giant salt shakers.
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I’m fairly sure the fax machine was invented earlier than the 1930s.
A lot of great ideas for videos and panels-much appreciated! I will of course be forwarding this list to our heads of video and programming.
I suggested an idea like this for the upsoming Arisia 2008 quite a while ago (before this thread), but it’s not clear yet if they’rre going to do it. I hope you don’t mind if I steal ideas from this thread.