{"id":53778,"date":"2013-02-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-24T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=53778"},"modified":"2013-02-24T14:20:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-24T19:20:38","slug":"sunday-fun-1967-futurists-imagine-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/02\/24\/sunday-fun-1967-futurists-imagine-the-21st-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Fun: 1967 Futurists Imagine the 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/02\/Screenshot_1.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53781\" alt=\"Screenshot_1\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/02\/Screenshot_1.png\" width=\"418\" height=\"137\" \/><\/a>In this charming minute-and-a-half, Walter Cronkite demos the home office of 2001, as envisioned in 1967. \u00a0Amazingly, reality seems to have far outpaced their imagination!<\/p>\n<p>I love the first line, by the way: &#8220;This is where a man might spend most of his time in the home of the 21st century.&#8221; \u00a0Apparently professional futurists in 1967 couldn&#8217;t imagine women working!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"420\" height=\"315\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/V6DSu3IfRlo?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Via <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2013\/02\/10\/in-their-words-32\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cyborgology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this charming minute-and-a-half, Walter Cronkite demos the home office of 2001, as envisioned in 1967. \u00a0Amazingly, reality seems to have far outpaced their imagination! I love the first line, by the way: &#8220;This is where a man might spend most of his time in the home of the 21st century.&#8221; \u00a0Apparently professional futurists in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,2102,2100,253,290,140,76],"class_list":["post-53778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-gender-history","tag-gender-work","tag-history","tag-sciencetechnology","tag-internet","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53778"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54071,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53778\/revisions\/54071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}