(Pictures especially requested) How did science-fiction (and other futurology) authors imagine 2010?

I don’t have any pictures, but several books that did relatively well in predicting some of the future would include George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984.
Brave New World as well.
There are aspects in each very much seen in today’s society.

I WANT MY FLYING CAR!!!!!

Here’s some….....(although not specifically 2010) YOu’d need to see the pics and imaginations of Arthur C Clarke in 2001 / 2010 for specifics…......
Popular Visions of the Future
45-vintage-space-age-illustrations
Flying Car
It’s funny how some 50’s and 60’s scifi writers got the gadgets spot on, the walkie talkies, mobile phones, miniature cameras etc etc but thier actual visions were – even to us now very sleek and futuristic looking. Flying cars aside, Technological advances have slowed down slightly in the last 50 years according to scientists.
I hope teleportation is invented before I pop my clogs.

ha ha i think they gave up after space 1999

I wish the Art Deco theme would have translated through to today.

@strange1 – I loved that show, and UFO was good too – Commander Straker and the guys of SHADO protecting the futuristic world! CLassic!

@scotsbloke yes you can still see them sometimes on digital

Pretty much any of Gerry Anderson’s programmes are a good view of the future from the 60’s and 70’s. Some pretty accurate too, just look at the cars on UFO!

William Gibson’s work (cyberpunk) depicted our society as having achieved “wetware” (computer implants in the brain) already. That obviously hasn’t happened, but they are working on ways to use implants to help paralysis patients walk again, etc.

Well, in the Star Trek universe, we’d be in the middle of the Eugenics wars – fighting with each other, using genetically-enhanced armies ((KAHN!!!)). Over the next 40 years, we’ll destroy the earth completely trying to kill each other with assorted bombs, and every industrialized nation will eventually revert to primitive means of survival. Then, 2063, Zefram Cochrane will create the first warp-capable ship out of salvaged materials, gaining the attention of a passing Vulcan ship, with whom he will make First Contact, leading the Earth into a time of peace and harmony, where hunger and greed no longer exist.

@Seek_Kolinahr And he would do it while drunk, too. :)

@Dr_Dredd – Of course. Completely hammered. On the “good stuff… wait… that’s not the good stuff.”

@scotsbloke Where the fuck is my flying car?

Much of the sci-fi I’ve read is more dystopian, but it’s also been set a little later in the 21st century (like2030–2090). Still, the “history” they give generally has us all in a handbasket and heading South by 2010 so don’t expect anything terribly happy.

@jerv
You can keep the flying cars. Traffic is screwy enough without going 3-D with it.

I’ll take a Transporter and a Replicator, though.

Clash of the Titans. Watching the Democrats and Republicans doing battle, not to far from the fact.

“Clash of the Titans” http://www.shockya.com/news/wp-content/uploads/clash_of_the_titans_horse_sword_poster.jpg

@ETpro Actually, in the case of Congress, I think it would be Clash of the Morons.

@jerv YOUR Flying car? Unless you have something cool to trade for it, forget it matey.

I like the image of the future we get in the film Bladerunner, all dark and smoky.
or the futurey look of the world in I Robot and Minority Report.
How about the future depicted in the 2000AD comics, Judge Dredd, mega city one etc? Pretty depressing….......

@Seek_Kolinahr I didn’t think those came out until the 22nd-century….

@scotsbloke I’ve always liked the fictional “history ” in the Shadowrun Core Rules And so it came to pass… Give that a look-see.