--VIDEOPHONES Engineers said the Picturephone, unveiled at the 1964 World's Fair, would replace standard phones by 2000. Forty years later, consumers still balk at the high price--and at losing the ability to take calls in their underwear.
--A MOON COLONY The New York Times in 1960 predicted "a flourishing civilization on the moon twenty or thirty years hence." The first moon landing was in 1969, and we're still waiting for the place to go co-op.
--FOOD IN PILLS Those apple-pie pills the Jetsons popped sure looked neat. But--unless you count PowerBars--food that's purely functional hasn't taken over store shelves.
--CARS THAT...
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