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Steve3007 wrote: ↑July 24th, 2020, 9:58 am I remember that the thing I most liked about the song "In The Year 2525" was that, unlike most futuristic fiction, it placed its predictions a sensibly long way in the future. At about the same time, "2001: A Space Odyssey" was making far fetched predictions about what would happen only 32 years later. I've always found it surprising that futuristic fiction tends to be so short-sighted. After all, it's easy enough to cover yourself by adding an extra zero or a few hundred years.

"Space 1999", made in the 70's, was the most ridiculous example of this. They might as well have called it "Space a week on Tuesday".

So, when the song says "in the year 4545 you won't need your teeth of your eyes", that's much more believable. A sensible, modest prediction.

Another futuristic song, this time without dates:

I was 14 when Zager and Evans were in the charts, and I loved the apocalyptic vocal, as (I suspect) many young teenagers did too. Barry MacGuire's "Eve of destruction" was similarly prescient (cf. our current Extinction Rebellion). I loved that too.

Tony Levin's "Stick Men", a band I haven't heard before. Nice.

still as relevant as ever...

For anyone who wants an audio virtualization of the six stages of dementia in 6 1/2 hours. I had 6 1/2 hours of work to do this evening so it was good background.

PFM - I haven't heard (of) them for a Very Long Time.

Ah yes, crisp *music*