That 1997 article predicting we'd all have robot butlers by 2020

My buddy Dave texted me a scan of some old Popular Mechanics piece claiming we'd be offloading laundry and dishes to robot servants by now, and I laughed until I remembered I just spent 45 minutes arguing with my Roomba about a shoe lace. Anyone else got a stack of these predictions that aged like milk?

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finley93914d ago

My Roomba and me have an ongoing war over charging cables. The thing genuinely seems to target them on purpose. I had a 1993 Time magazine article about flying cars that my dad saved. We can barely keep drones from crashing into trees. At least robots didn't take over the world like some predictions said. But they did figure out how to eat my socks when I'm not looking.

kim.sandra14d ago

Ha! @finley939, maybe your Roomba's just trying to vacuum up those flying car dreams.