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1. I expected Jetsons-level stuff by year 2000.

Reply to Caribbeans (Original post)

Tue May 12, 2026, 06:15 PM

19 hrs ago

By 1999 I was pretty disillusioned, but I still partied like it was 1999. After all, by 2020 we'd all just be working from home for a few hours a day. Okay, that kind of happened. Now I just hope we'll see a person walk on the Moon in our lifetimes. And would it kill them to deliver groceries to my porch with a drone?

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I expected Jetsons-level stuff by year 2000. thought crime 19 hrs ago #1