User blog comment:SouthWriter/Making things up/@comment-2074309-20100604023205

Your right about how the past viewed the future that we experience as now. An early movie based Metropolis showed two winged airplains in the future. 1950's science fiction movies with room sized computers. They couldn't se microchips and laptops. In the 1950's some one predicted " Some day computers will weigh less than a ton."