Smart-Drink Futurism

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Recently, I was talking with a friend who writes about technology, and the term "smart-drink futurism" came out of my mouth. I think it's a useful term: the Next Big Thing that not only doesn't come to pass, but looks incredibly silly a few years down the line. I wondered: what are some other things that fall into this category?

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 3 October 2002 19:49 (twenty-three years ago)

(named, naturally, for those fruit juice + vitamin powder drinks that used to be sold at raves as energy-enhancers--Red Bull before its time, in theory; never worked for shit, in fact-slash-my experience)

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 3 October 2002 19:51 (twenty-three years ago)

segway taking over the world

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Thursday, 3 October 2002 19:54 (twenty-three years ago)

http://planttel.net/~boyce/umbr-hat.jpg

― gabriel rodriguez-doerr (gabe), Thursday, 3 October 2002 20:11 (twenty-three years ago)

blogging.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 3 October 2002 20:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Kozmo.com.

― Jody Beth Rosen, Thursday, 3 October 2002 20:19 (twenty-three years ago)

also: yoghurt in a tube.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 3 October 2002 20:21 (twenty-three years ago)

(aka GOgurt)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 3 October 2002 20:21 (twenty-three years ago)

NB: I used to write/do editing for a gadget-geek magazine circa 1999, so I'll dig some of those issues out and see if I can come up with any decent examples.

― Jody Beth Rosen, Thursday, 3 October 2002 20:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Argh, smart drinks. All of a sudden it's Lollapalooza 1994 again.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 October 2002 20:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Court mandated norplant implants.

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 4 October 2002 00:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Oxygen bars.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 4 October 2002 07:07 (twenty-three years ago)

monorails :(

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 4 October 2002 08:04 (twenty-three years ago)

holograms

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Friday, 4 October 2002 08:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Edible post it notes.

― Kim (Kim), Friday, 4 October 2002 08:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Virtual sex. The kind that requires elaborate bodygear, I mean.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 4 October 2002 09:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Quadrophonic sound.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 4 October 2002 09:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Internet/television synergy (e.g. nbci.com).

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 4 October 2002 09:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Two from my own industry: Chiat/Day's implementation of "alternative officing" and the Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis, MO.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 4 October 2002 09:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Here's a better article about the Chiat/Day fiasco.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 4 October 2002 09:53 (twenty-three years ago)

haha the PAPER-FREE OFFICE!!

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 4 October 2002 10:17 (twenty-three years ago)

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