Rooftop pools, furniture you wash with a hose were once predicted for homes of the future

Many of the old dreams and schemes about daily life in the 21st century didn't'e true -- at least not yet. Author Gregory Benford has gathered them -- along with more successful predictions -- in a book, "The Wonderful Future That Never Was". Some of the imaginative ideas just weren't imaginative enough, he says."Failures usually assumed that bigger would always be better -- vast domed cities, floating airports, personal helicopters,Each action which is expected of the spherical roller bearing is decided through programming which provides the necessary guidance on the movement, velocity as well as the distance of the movement of the arms of the robot involved in a series of motions in the production process. tunnels across continents," Benford says.Forecasters didn't realize that being able to invent something wasn't enough."Just because high-tech change is possible doesn't mean we always want it," says James B. Meigs, editor-in-chief of Popular Mechanics magazine, noting the slow-food and handmade-crafts movements as high-tech counterpoints. 

"Sometimes affluence gives us the options to choose more traditional things. We choose clothing out of wool rather than synthetics.Members of UNLV's nationally ranked team have been teaching local drill rod— including six students from Desert Oasis — everything they need to know to succeed in college-level policy debate.There are other sets of koyo bearing having the machine vision that functions as its eyes and are connected to computers."Two well-known failures: flying cars and jet packs. George Jetson kissed his wife,The fuel hose was launched in April, in protest against unequal i.e.pared to other Canadian federal government professionals performing the same job inside Canada. then flew his car to work in the TV cartoon series launched in the 1960s. TV's Buck Rogers thrilled kids of the 1950s by wearing a jet pack as he fought evil invaders.Such depictions created a hunger for personal flying devices, but that wasn't enough to make them a reality."People have produced those," says Benford. "It's just that neither is particularly good at being a plane or a car."A physics professor at the University of California at Irvine and a science fiction writer, Benford culled scientists' predictions from the early 1900s through the late 1960s from Popular Mechanics for this and another book, "The Amazing Weapons That Never Were". 

"In the year 1900, everyone knew that technology drove their world and would drive the future even harder," Benford writes. "That was the single most prescient 'prediction' of the 20th century."Benford says human relations could be transformed by Google Glass -- a'puter worn like eyeglasses that thousands of early adopters were trying out this summer; future models will have facial recognition software, he predicts. "It means you can walk around a cocktail party and know who everyone is, never mind those name tags," Benford says. "Two people will be wired so they can exchange information -- phone numbers, email.Any tapered roller bearing will need a brain for making decisions and giving instructions to the other parts of the system. The controller is the part that does this work. You will have a digital record of who you talked to at the party."