Let me guess

In 1970 I bet they were smoking weed, dropping acid, and fucking like rabbits.

The future isn't what it was supposed to be

They forgot to mention that in the future white men will be able to murder black teenagers in Florida when ever they feel like it.

"Hello? You're from the future you say? Well, what's life like in the year 2010?"

"What's that you say? People live to be over a hundred years old, some diseases have been wiped out, you've been to the moon, and the rich and corporations still have to pay taxes?"

"My friends, the year 2010 must be hell on earth...the rich still have to pay taxes! And corporations too! It's hell I tell you, HELL!"

You may tell yourself, this is not my beautiful house

This paleo-future advertisement came from the back of a 1955 issue of Scientific American.

Life was grand with all those labor saving appliances, wasn't it? Thanks to those ball bearings our work time decreased and our leisure time increased so much that we had time to invent jet packs and underwater houses. Life sure is great in the future that never was.