Check out this video clip at Snopes.com showing what folks in the 1960s thought we'd be doing in 1999.
It's actually a bit scary seeing how close they came -- desktop computers, online shopping, flat screens. Remember, this was two decades before the Silicon Valley revolution, so desktop computing would have been quite the revolutionary idea.
The woman's poofy hairdo is frightening too.
It's a bit disappointing that they still separated men's and women's chores into work and housekeeping. Oh well, it was the 60s, what do you expect?
They still had analog and knob dials. Funny that they didn't envision anything digital. (You get the same thing when you watch the original Star Trek episodes.) Heh.
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