What happened to the future?

[Board Game Geek]

"Anything is possible, how much do you want to spend?"

Most Clients will respond "as little as possible" and yet expect the Moon on a Stick.

[MPwannadecentincome]

Most Clients will respond "as little as possible" and yet expect the Moon on a Stick.

When they say that to me I tell them they will be delivered whatever fits in with what they want to spend. If they don't like it then it gets escalated to the business sponsor/stakeholder

[MPwannadecentincome]

Mich - I think you would like what this guy is saying....

Engineers, back in your sheds

[Mich the Tester]

Mich - I think you would like what this guy is saying....

Engineers, back in your sheds

"Building things and doing stuff: that’s what made Britain great; not moving nonexistent sums of money around or hanging out with Paris Hilton. We seem to have forgotten this country has an engineering legacy that stretches back to James Watt, George Stephenson and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, to name but three. "

[MPwannadecentincome]

"Building things and doing stuff: that’s what made Britain great; not moving nonexistent sums of money around or hanging out with Paris Hilton. We seem to have forgotten this country has an engineering legacy that stretches back to James Watt, George Stephenson and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, to name but three. "

I thought you would like it!

[OwlHoot]

We tend to look at big fast means of transport that we don't have, and ignore what we do have:

The Internet. Those of us old enough to notice that half our memories come with the footnote "there was no internet in those days, of course", notice that.

Mobile phones: they fitted right into our lives so fast that we forget... see comment above re internet.

Loads of other stuff: remember those automatically-opening doors on Star Trek? When the original series was made, the bridge of the Enterprise was the only place you could see them.

Microwave ovens: yes you can buy crap ones. A decent one does work.

Medicine: despite all the efforts of both parties in Britain to strangle the NHS for want of funds (and good sense) while claiming that it is thriving under them, life is better and longer than it was. And as for the Third World: life expectancy in most poor countries has jumped from 13th Century levels to 20th Century levels in one generation.

Cars: we can all afford to buy them, and they work.

Travel and Communication: when I was young, if a relative moved to Australia, you'd never see them again, and probably never hear from them again either because a 20-minute phone call cost a week's pay.

TV: many channels, now in colour. All ready for the day when there's a lot of stuff worth watching.


OK, I'm beginning to depress myself. I'm trying to put a brave face on it, but it's a shadow of what it could be. Even if I throw in Velcro and ring-pull cans (the only things I remember from 1960s Tomorrows World that actually came to be).

Yes, but apart from the Internet, mobile phones, automatic doors, microwave ovens, cheap international calls, loads of TV channels, velcro, and ring-pull cans, what has the future ever done for us?!

(corny I know, but someone had to say it)

[Mich the Tester]

I thought you would like it!

This must be built.

[TimberWolf]

Yes, but apart from the Internet, mobile phones, automatic doors, microwave ovens, cheap international calls, loads of TV channels, velcro, and ring-pull cans, what has the future ever done for us?!

Sanitation?

[MPwannadecentincome]

This must be built.

Calling all benched contractors - contribute to the future....

[Mich the Tester]

Calling all benched contractors - contribute to the future....

They should replace that Andy Green though; what a boring sod. We need a true British ‘chap’ with brylcreem in his hair, a pipe between the lips and a pudding bowl helmet to drive this thing. A Donald Campbell for the 21st century. You know, the sort who says ‘tally ho, chaps’ and then goes off at 1000mph, radios base to put the kettle on, then turns round and comes back at 1000mph just in time for the kettle to boil.