| Posted: 02 June 2026 at 6:12pm | IP Logged | 1
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Not a new idea, but the thread I started about Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” being set in a Future that we’ve caught up to, without the catastrophic events of the story, got me thinking about the number of times I have encountered this phenomenon. One that springs immediately to mind is STAR TREK’s “eugenics wars”, predicted for circa 1996. Kubrick’s 2001 was overly optimistic by several decades. We’re still a long way from that moonbase and space station. A few years earlier, tho, FORBIDDEN PLANET has taken the position that we would not reach the Moon until the end of the 21st Century. At the gloomy end of the spectrum several movies predicted World War III as happening around 1964. ON THE BEACH is one such. There’s a delightfully whacky movie from the Thirties, JUST IMAGINE! that sees us adopting names like Bob 209 by the Seventies.
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