In the Larry Niven/Jerry Pournelle novel "The Mote in God's Eye", faster-than-light travel is also perfected in 2008. And according to Futurama, suicide booths are invented then, too.
The 1972 sci-fi film Silent Running takes place in 2008. By then all plant life on Earth has died out, and Bruce Dern is committed to growing and preserving plants in geodesic domes orbiting Saturn so that eventually the Earth can be reforested (the movie also demonstrates why we should never put Bruce Dern in charge of anything).
So...some good and some bad things to look forward to next year...
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Wait a minute, wait a minute. If it wasn't for the likes of Bruce Dern...why we wouldn't have lines like this:
Freeman Lowell: [gesturing toward a picture] Look on the wall behind you. Look at that little girl's face. I know you've seen it. But you know what she's never going to be able to see? She's never going to be able to see the simple wonder of a leaf in her hand. Because theres not going to be any trees. Now you think about that.
Some blogger thinks he can smear the name of the Dern while I am in ear shot... ;)
Well, but it's true that things go a little awry with Dern in Silent Running...I mean...in a big way.
Not as bad as in, say, Black Sunday, though.
Anyways, to quote Dern from The King of Marvin Gardens: "Pineapples!"
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