I've said before that one of my favorite things is perusing the world online in the morning while I have my java. I woke at a few minutes till 5 this morning and that absolutely delights me. I love to wake early.
I was thinking about the future this morning.
Not necessarily 'my' specific future or what "I'll" be doing in 20 years, but what the world will be doing. I get quite a kick out of looking back at the "future prediction" videos of years gone by. When one stops to think about the advancements in technology that we've seen in the last decades it's really pretty mind boggling.
This morning I ran across a video of ELEKTRO the Smoking Robot!
Shriek with delight as ELEKTRO walks forward very slowly, offers funny quips
AND Smokes a Ciggie!!!!
I was thinking about the future this morning.
Not necessarily 'my' specific future or what "I'll" be doing in 20 years, but what the world will be doing. I get quite a kick out of looking back at the "future prediction" videos of years gone by. When one stops to think about the advancements in technology that we've seen in the last decades it's really pretty mind boggling.
This morning I ran across a video of ELEKTRO the Smoking Robot!
Shriek with delight as ELEKTRO walks forward very slowly, offers funny quips
AND Smokes a Ciggie!!!!
Isn't that great? Can you imagine taking one of those people and dropping them in 2010 as we text,
send one another videos and watch things on our DVR?
::Events of 1939 - from "the WIKI"::
The Hewlett-Packard Company is founded.
Amelia Earhart is officially declared dead after her disappearance.
- In Bombay, Mohandas Gandhi begins a fast protesting against British rule in India.
- Students at Harvard University demonstrate the new tradition of swallowing goldfish to reporters.
- In Durban, South Africa the Timeless Test begins between England and South Africa, the longest game of cricket ever played. It is abandoned twelve days later when the English team has to catch the last ferry home.
African-American singer Marian Anderson performs before 75,000 people at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., after having been denied the use both of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution, and of a public high school by the federally controlled District of Columbia.
The 1939 New York World's Fair opens.
Major League Baseball's Lou Gehrig, the legendary Yankee first baseman known as "The Iron Horse", ends his 2,130 consecutive games played streak after contracting amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The record stands for 56 years before Cal Ripken, Jr. plays 2,131 consecutive games.
Batman, created by Bob Kane (and, unofficially, Bill Finger) makes his first appearance in a comic book.
The 1st World Science Fiction Convention opens in New York City.
Lou Gehrig gives his last public speech, following a diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). In it, he says, "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."
The only recorded snowfall in Auckland, New Zealand since records began in 1853.
Albert Einstein writes to President Franklin Roosevelt about developing the atomic bomb using uranium. This leads to the creation of the Manhattan Project.
MGM's classic musical film The Wizard of Oz, based on L. Frank Baum's famous novel, and starring Judy Garland as Dorothy, premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons to non-belligerent nations.
La Guardia Airport opens for business in New York City.
General Motors introduces the Hydra-Matic drive, the first mass-produced, fully automatic transmission, as an option in 1940 model year Oldsmobile automobiles.
