Birthdays
Shawn Ashmore b. 1979 (X-Men)
Aaron Ashmore b. 1979 (Smallville, Warehouse 13, Lost Girl)
Dylan Baker b. 1959 (Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3, The Cell)
Howard Chaykin b. 1950 (American Flagg!)
A short list of birthdays today. The Ashmore twins have done very little work together, but both were on Smallville, Aaron several times as Jimmy Olsen and Shawn twice as Eric Summers. Shawn played Iceman in several of the X-Men series. I put Dylan Baker in the Picture Slot because I know more of his work, though very little of it is in genre films.
Many happy returns of the day to our birthday boys.
Prediction: Gadgetry will continue to relieve mankind of tedious jobs. Kitchen units will be devised that will prepare "automeals," heating water and converting it to coffee; toasting bread; frying, poaching or scrambling eggs, grilling bacon, and so on. Breakfasts will be "ordered" the night before to be ready by a specified hour the next morning. Complete lunches and dinners, with the food semiprepared, will be stored in the freezer until ready for processing.
I suspect, though, that even in 2014 it will still be advisable to have a small corner in the kitchen unit where the more individual meals can be prepared by hand, especially when company is coming.
Predictor: Isaac Asimov in 1964, making predictions about 2014 for publication coinciding with the 1964 World's Fair in New York.
Reality: If he had just stopped with that first sentence, Asimov would have been credited with a hit. If he had included the second sentence, modern coffee machines could have given him some semblance of correctness. But the automatic kitchen making meals is not a reality fifty years after he predicted it. (It should be noted that similar predictions were made in the L.A. 2013 article published in 1988.)
I'd like to write, "wait until next week, Isaac gets better", but I'm taking his predictions in order and it's a while before he really nails one directly on the head.
Looking one day ahead... INTO THE FUTURE!
The first of two exact date predictions from Demolition Man, celebrating its twentieth anniversary tomorrow.
Join us then... IN THE FUTURE!
"Kitchen unit". That's the kind of talk you hear from a guy who has never actually done anything in one.
ReplyDeleteAlso, many people enjoy cooking, as an activity and as an art.
Prof, you're making me lose appreciation for Asimov.
He's not as space crazy as Heinlein, I'll give him that. He has 19 predictions in total and unfortunately for his reputation, there are more hits at the end than there are at the beginning. Not to give away the whole story in the coming attractions, he does include a few concepts that prove his sci-fi bona fides.
Delete1. Moving sidewalks. (Meh.)
2. Pneumatic tubes. (YAY!)
3. Hovercraft. (Best when full of eels.)
are you saying Heinlein is a spacehead?
Delete--I'd buy that.