Good stuff. A lot of these aren't as crazy as we might think.

Here's some items from today that might have raised eyebrows 35 years ago (1967):

Smoking in bars outlawed

Most families own their own computers

That little black square that just slipped out of your hand and fell on the floor is more powerful than the largest top secret military computer on Earth

Obesity is one of biggest threats to poor

South African apartheid quietly folds up and disappears*

Soviet Union quietly folds up and disappears*

Medicare program costs top 230 billion dollars**

Some of the best high-tech products in the world are marked "made in Japan."

Searching for oil in America illegal

Texan president has prominent black cabinet members

Three decades after we landed on the Moon, only three people are living for extended periods in space (that one hurts.)

Cars are twice as powerful, and pollute only a fraction as much

Many of the largest corporations are building things you never heard of

Many multimillionaires got rich building things you never heard of

People are creeped out by the Pledge of Allegiance and the Ten Commandments

People aren't creeped out by men in pony tails and women with crewcuts

Some form of Star Trek is STILL on television

IBM, General Motors, and other gigantic corporations of the 1960s don't rule the world

Most professional sports millionaires are black

Your car STILL doesn't fly

* Sometimes we take for granted the miracle of the horrible wars that DIDN'T happen.

** When Medicare was voted in, the proponents estimated that it would cost about $12 billion by 1990, including an allowance for inflation. Actual cost by then was about $107 billion.