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Read a 1950s article that said robots would do all our housework by 2000
I was digging through some old magazines at a flea market in Omaha last weekend and found a prediction from 1956 that said by the year 2000, robots would clean our whole house while we relaxed. Cost me 3 bucks for the magazine but it was worth it for the laugh... I just spent my Saturday scrubbing the bathroom floor myself. Has anyone else run into these old tech predictions that were way off base?
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alice_reed474d ago
Mila, you've clearly never seen the state of my bathroom after my husband and his buddies use it for poker night. I'd trade my right arm for a toilet scrubbing robot but instead I'm down here on my knees with a brush like it's 1956. These old magazines make it sound like we'd be lounging around drinking martinis while machines did everything... jokes on them, I'm just tired and my back hurts. At least they got the "relaxing" part wrong too because who has time to relax when the robot never showed up to work?
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