Technology In Action, 1983
I like how this ad from my local newspaper (March 1983) shows its Vision of the Future by using some crap font from the mid-1970s.
And the illustration of the dot-matrix printer paper is pretty slammin', too. See how it shows some rad futuristic action by having the stack of paper thrust and curl itself at you? That stuff prints all by itself! Because that's what's supposed to happen in the future--paper prints stuff all by itself, robots clean the house after you teleport to work, and children are grown hydroponically.
Oh, and everything smells like plastic and all the music sounds exactly like the Kraftwerk song "Computer World". Really.
Since it is after all 1983, we offer a Ghostbusters quote: "I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought" because, ya know, I live in The Future and it's all pretty horrifying here what with all the teleporting robots and plastic children and all.
And the illustration of the dot-matrix printer paper is pretty slammin', too. See how it shows some rad futuristic action by having the stack of paper thrust and curl itself at you? That stuff prints all by itself! Because that's what's supposed to happen in the future--paper prints stuff all by itself, robots clean the house after you teleport to work, and children are grown hydroponically.
Sit back and enjoy this brief glimpse of The Future from my 1983 high school yearbook. In The Future you fly to school using jetpacks and absorb knowledge by rubbing Rubik's Cubes all over yourselves.
Oh, and everything smells like plastic and all the music sounds exactly like the Kraftwerk song "Computer World". Really.
Since it is after all 1983, we offer a Ghostbusters quote: "I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought" because, ya know, I live in The Future and it's all pretty horrifying here what with all the teleporting robots and plastic children and all.
