The Ripon Rabbit
About this show
They promised us flying cars!
Robot servants.
Moon colonies.
A 15-hour workweek.
Nuclear energy too cheap to meter.
And offices with almost no paperwork.
So… what happened?
Tonight on Ripon Rabbit Hole LIVE, AJ takes a trip through more than a century of predictions about the future from the wild visions of the 1800s, to the World’s Fair, the Atomic Age, the Space Race, and the technological promises of the year 2000.
Some predictions were hilariously wrong. Some were surprisingly accurate.
And some actually came true; we just didn’t recognize them when they arrived.
Then we turn the telescope around and ask the dangerous question:
What are WE predicting about 2126 today that people will laugh at 100 years from now?
AI. Robots. Self-driving cars. Space travel. The future of work. The disappearance of privacy. And maybe something none of us can even imagine yet.
Tonight, politics takes a back seat as we climb into the time machine for a funny, nostalgic and thought-provoking look at…
THE AMERICA WE WERE PROMISED vs. THE AMERICA WE GOT.
