>I was specifically talking about the communication with moon. I find it funny how back in the day, futurologists were obsessed with it.
What's funny about it?
The President himself (JFK) had promised that the US will send "a man on the moon and return him safely to the earth" by the end of the sixties.
If the same amount of money and determination was continued post-1969, moon colonies (colonies of scientists, like in Alaska, not some kind of new state on the moon), would have been a very real possibility.
I think it's funny in a way that's symptomatic of us nerds' future predictions: much more focus on what's possible than on what's useful/enjoyable. We focus on extrapolating technological advances, at the expense of a basic marketing/human interest mindset.
In considering ceilings and walls that "glow softly, and in a variety of colors" the right observation is not that it will be feasible by 2014, but that nobody older than seven would genuinely want this in their home :)
