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How we imagined A.I. in 1977. . . How it's looking today. . .

Time Machine Collision

"Milk, butter, bread - all past the expiration date. either he just hadn't noticed before, or his time machine worked."

Pop Culture for Teens

"There is a 5 month slow down. You are still on the fastest route. You will arrive next year."

'I love this street...it's so real man...'

"Attention, everyone! I'd like to introduce the newest member of our family."

'Of course he didn't believe the stork story. Try telling him we made him with a 3D printer.'

'I, Dom Perignon, will now uncork the very first bottle of Champagne. Of course, I'm just guessing this is the right way to do it.'

Innovate or die.

How Gary got his groove back.

"He's really excited about this new proposal to let staff take over services."

'Like us, the Hula Hoop will never go out of style.'

National Optometrists Association. O.K., whose idea was it to form a focus group?…

'You have a 9:00 A.M. appointment with your ophthalmologist to check your vision and a 11:00 A.M. appointment with the staff to rally the troops around your vision.'

TV dinners: regular and widescreen

"I love you, even though you still use a flip phone."

"These are PC to view, providing we laugh in an ironic and non-committal way - belly laughing constitutes a hate crime."

"What about that! His brain still uses the old vacuum tubes."

'We don't discriminate per se - we just don't hire Lyle Lovett lookalikes.'

'Does it have colour?'

Space Rocket.

'It's an e-mail in a bottle!'

'I-need-bifocal-itis.'

"In the olden days, people used payphones. Beats me how they took selfies!"

"This time I'm sure I've got it right!"

When you think about it, you have to be a complete idiot NOT to believe aliens crashed at Roswell in 1947. It's clear we reverse-engineered their tech. Before 1947: Primitive cars, planes and radio. After 1947: Spaceships, quantum computing, internet. Let me try ... Before 1947: No bikinis. After 1947: Bikinis. No, wait ... the bikini was 1946. That throws this whole theory into question. We really should have our own science show.

"Now, be honest. Do these glasses make me look ridiculous?"

"Now it's high definition!"

Today's problems should have been solved in the 1950s, but in the '50s we were solving the problems of the '20s, and in the 20's we were solving the problems of the 1890's.

Everything will look perfectly flat...in your Realtek 2D glasses.

The wonder of modern technology

"And our charging station, also a period piece. . ."

Chinese takeout closed temporarily: 'Our abacus is down.'