Comments on: 1975: And The Changes To Come http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2008/02/12/1975-and-the-changes-to-come/ Trash, Treasure, Oddities, Obsessions and Obligations Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:07:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Can you imagine a world with Toaster Bacon? | Royal Bacon Society - The Ultimate Bacon Resource http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2008/02/12/1975-and-the-changes-to-come/#comment-18236 Can you imagine a world with Toaster Bacon? | Royal Bacon Society - The Ultimate Bacon Resource Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:17:52 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2008/02/12/1975-and-the-changes-to-come/#comment-18236 [...] 1975: And the Changes to Come, Mr. Barach explores the many ways our world would change in just less than 15 years. This included [...] [...] 1975: And the Changes to Come, Mr. Barach explores the many ways our world would change in just less than 15 years. This included [...]

]]> By: Give me convenient bacon or give me death | MetaFilter http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2008/02/12/1975-and-the-changes-to-come/#comment-17773 Give me convenient bacon or give me death | MetaFilter Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:37:54 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2008/02/12/1975-and-the-changes-to-come/#comment-17773 [...] Give me convenient bacon or give me death March 27, 2008 1:36 AM   Subscribe Hi-fi spheres, bacon toasters, translated Pravda on demand, and other changes to come in 1975 A.D. [ via Bostworld ] posted by Blazecock Pileon (7 comments total) Bacon in a Toaster. Bacon would be prefried, then hermetically sealed in this design for a future aluminum package. One way to heat it for eating would be to drop it in the toaster; If that thing got stuck in there I'd have to pry it out with a fork. posted by Tube at 1:46 AM on March 27 Heh, good post. Totally failed to predict major 1970s phenomena such as loon pants posted by surfdad at 1:59 AM on March 27 OMGBACON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I really want toastable bacon. posted by BrotherCaine at 2:02 AM on March 27 The future was so much cooler when we didn't live there. posted by louche mustachio at 2:03 AM on March 27 Oven in the Round. Portable oven, by designer Greta Magnusson Grossman, is intended for broiling and baking at the table, on the patio, or in the kitchen. Round half-spheres can be moved in either direction to open or close the oven. Cooking would be by fast radiant heat. Devices such as this point the way to new informality in the home.You have no idea, Mr 1960. We can't even figure out how to have meals anymore, we just irradiate our pre-packed Food Cartons and stuff them into our mouths, half-naked, staring bleary-eyed at our Intertrons until we pass out. The next morning we show up at work where no one wears suits, grab a coffee, and chug it down, half-awake, staring bleary-eyed at our Intertrons until we can go home. Why couldn't we have just been okay with hi-fi spheres and bacon-toasting? posted by blacklite at 2:04 AM on March 27 [2 favorites] OMGBACON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I really want toastable bacon. Instead we get the Bacon Wave. NOT THE SAME. posted by louche mustachio at 2:08 AM on March 27 ...though it may save Blazecock Pileon from death, but only on a technicality. posted by louche mustachio at 2:10 AM on March 27 [...] [...] Give me convenient bacon or give me death March 27, 2008 1:36 AM   Subscribe Hi-fi spheres, bacon toasters, translated Pravda on demand, and other changes to come in 1975 A.D. [ via Bostworld ] posted by Blazecock Pileon (7 comments total) Bacon in a Toaster. Bacon would be prefried, then hermetically sealed in this design for a future aluminum package. One way to heat it for eating would be to drop it in the toaster; If that thing got stuck in there I’d have to pry it out with a fork. posted by Tube at 1:46 AM on March 27 Heh, good post. Totally failed to predict major 1970s phenomena such as loon pants posted by surfdad at 1:59 AM on March 27 OMGBACON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I really want toastable bacon. posted by BrotherCaine at 2:02 AM on March 27 The future was so much cooler when we didn’t live there. posted by louche mustachio at 2:03 AM on March 27 Oven in the Round. Portable oven, by designer Greta Magnusson Grossman, is intended for broiling and baking at the table, on the patio, or in the kitchen. Round half-spheres can be moved in either direction to open or close the oven. Cooking would be by fast radiant heat. Devices such as this point the way to new informality in the home.You have no idea, Mr 1960. We can’t even figure out how to have meals anymore, we just irradiate our pre-packed Food Cartons and stuff them into our mouths, half-naked, staring bleary-eyed at our Intertrons until we pass out. The next morning we show up at work where no one wears suits, grab a coffee, and chug it down, half-awake, staring bleary-eyed at our Intertrons until we can go home. Why couldn’t we have just been okay with hi-fi spheres and bacon-toasting? posted by blacklite at 2:04 AM on March 27 [2 favorites] OMGBACON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I really want toastable bacon. Instead we get the Bacon Wave. NOT THE SAME. posted by louche mustachio at 2:08 AM on March 27 …though it may save Blazecock Pileon from death, but only on a technicality. posted by louche mustachio at 2:10 AM on March 27 [...]

]]> By: The future according to 1962 « [lab]oratory http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2008/02/12/1975-and-the-changes-to-come/#comment-17772 The future according to 1962 « [lab]oratory Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:49:51 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2008/02/12/1975-and-the-changes-to-come/#comment-17772 [...] Again, Bostworld offers us a set of pictures and captions of the year 1975 from the vantage of 1962 (or go direct to the Flickr set). You’ll see some familiar things: computers in libraries and schools, compact stereo sets and microwave-able bacon. However, it also imagined that we would still be plagued by door-to-door salesmen and that women’s jobs are limited to homemaking, teaching and typing. [...] [...] Again, Bostworld offers us a set of pictures and captions of the year 1975 from the vantage of 1962 (or go direct to the Flickr set). You’ll see some familiar things: computers in libraries and schools, compact stereo sets and microwave-able bacon. However, it also imagined that we would still be plagued by door-to-door salesmen and that women’s jobs are limited to homemaking, teaching and typing. [...]

]]> By: Neokrisys, tecnología y cultura geek » ¿Como será el mundo en 1975? http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2008/02/12/1975-and-the-changes-to-come/#comment-16927 Neokrisys, tecnología y cultura geek » ¿Como será el mundo en 1975? Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:31:09 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2008/02/12/1975-and-the-changes-to-come/#comment-16927 [...] El responsable de que hoy estemos aquí hablando de esto es el editor de Bostworld, que se ha preocupado de ir escaneando las fotos del libro y copiando las descripciones de los cacharros en su galería de Flickr "1975 and the changes to come". [...] [...] El responsable de que hoy estemos aquí hablando de esto es el editor de Bostworld, que se ha preocupado de ir escaneando las fotos del libro y copiando las descripciones de los cacharros en su galería de Flickr "1975 and the changes to come". [...]

]]> By: no sense of place :: links for 2008-02-18 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2008/02/12/1975-and-the-changes-to-come/#comment-16926 no sense of place :: links for 2008-02-18 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:37:33 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2008/02/12/1975-and-the-changes-to-come/#comment-16926 [...] 1975: And The Changes To Come at Bostworld (tags: futurism photos history) [...] [...] 1975: And The Changes To Come at Bostworld (tags: futurism photos history) [...]

]]> By: Dave http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2008/02/12/1975-and-the-changes-to-come/#comment-16807 Dave Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:39:57 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2008/02/12/1975-and-the-changes-to-come/#comment-16807 Those who want to get the dirty lowdown on food irradiation should check out this organization's site (they're consumer-oriented): http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/foodirradiation Those who want to get the dirty lowdown on food irradiation should check out this organization’s site (they’re consumer-oriented):

http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/foodirradiation

]]> By: 1975. « Tim’s Blog http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2008/02/12/1975-and-the-changes-to-come/#comment-16804 1975. « Tim’s Blog Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:02:30 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2008/02/12/1975-and-the-changes-to-come/#comment-16804 [...] I feel like I’m stuck in Back to the Future but this post scans some ten cent book called (you guessed it) 1975: And the Changes To Come by Arnold B. Barach which was written somewhere in the early sixties. The idea, if I understand correctly, was to predict some of the major scientific and social progress to come hurtling toward everyone in the next fifteen years. That’s to say before 1975. [...] [...] I feel like I’m stuck in Back to the Future but this post scans some ten cent book called (you guessed it) 1975: And the Changes To Come by Arnold B. Barach which was written somewhere in the early sixties. The idea, if I understand correctly, was to predict some of the major scientific and social progress to come hurtling toward everyone in the next fifteen years. That’s to say before 1975. [...]

]]> By: remarkable communication http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2008/02/12/1975-and-the-changes-to-come/#comment-16795 remarkable communication Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:54:19 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2008/02/12/1975-and-the-changes-to-come/#comment-16795 <strong>StumbleUpon Friday: February 15, 2008...</strong> From time to time I post some of my favorite recent Stumbles. Save yourself an hour or two, get the good stuff all at once! Excerpts from To You. This blew me away. We live in group stupidity and confuse... StumbleUpon Friday: February 15, 2008…

From time to time I post some of my favorite recent Stumbles. Save yourself an hour or two, get the good stuff all at once! Excerpts from To You. This blew me away. We live in group stupidity and confuse…

]]> By: Life in 1975 (as predicted in 1962) | Culturegeeks http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2008/02/12/1975-and-the-changes-to-come/#comment-16794 Life in 1975 (as predicted in 1962) | Culturegeeks Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:03:53 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2008/02/12/1975-and-the-changes-to-come/#comment-16794 [...] I actually have this book! It’s really awesome, and I even used a bunch of these images to illustrate a zine I published many yearsago.1975: And the Changes to Come How to Preserve Foods. A rack of canned beans is lowered into a radioactive container where, in six to twenty minutes, the beans will receive enough radiation to preserve them indefinitely. Atomic radiation of foods will be routine in the seventies. Meats, vegetables, and fruits will be preserved by the process. Radiated foods can be kept for years with little or no refrigeration.Even back in 1953 they knew better than to play with radiation.   Bacon in a Toaster. Bacon would be prefried, then hermetically sealed in this design for a future aluminum package. One way to heat it for eating would be to drop it in the toaster; another, put in oven or broiler. A major advantage is the elimination of utensils for cooking. Package is opened by turning back the edges. Leftovers are easily preserved by refolding the pouch.Our 2008 reality offers a poor substitute. Translating Machine. Typist copies story from Russian newspaper Pravda on special machine which converts Russian letters to punched holes in paper tape. Insertion of the tape into another machine produces translation. By the 1970’s, automatic translation of practically all foreign publications and books will be routine. Private detectives recommend you don’t use this method. Also from 1962: The Sears Catalogue [...] [...] I actually have this book! It’s really awesome, and I even used a bunch of these images to illustrate a zine I published many yearsago.1975: And the Changes to Come How to Preserve Foods. A rack of canned beans is lowered into a radioactive container where, in six to twenty minutes, the beans will receive enough radiation to preserve them indefinitely. Atomic radiation of foods will be routine in the seventies. Meats, vegetables, and fruits will be preserved by the process. Radiated foods can be kept for years with little or no refrigeration.Even back in 1953 they knew better than to play with radiation.   Bacon in a Toaster. Bacon would be prefried, then hermetically sealed in this design for a future aluminum package. One way to heat it for eating would be to drop it in the toaster; another, put in oven or broiler. A major advantage is the elimination of utensils for cooking. Package is opened by turning back the edges. Leftovers are easily preserved by refolding the pouch.Our 2008 reality offers a poor substitute. Translating Machine. Typist copies story from Russian newspaper Pravda on special machine which converts Russian letters to punched holes in paper tape. Insertion of the tape into another machine produces translation. By the 1970’s, automatic translation of practically all foreign publications and books will be routine. Private detectives recommend you don’t use this method. Also from 1962: The Sears Catalogue [...]

]]> By: tech-o tuesday » Blog Archive » 1975: And the Changes to Come http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2008/02/12/1975-and-the-changes-to-come/#comment-16791 tech-o tuesday » Blog Archive » 1975: And the Changes to Come Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:16:26 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2008/02/12/1975-and-the-changes-to-come/#comment-16791 [...] [bostworld, via boingboing] Tags: changing lives with technology • friday fun [...] [...] [bostworld, via boingboing] Tags: changing lives with technology • friday fun [...]

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