Remember back in the year 2000 when you’d feed your brat kids their breakfast pellets, head to work under the city’s weather controlled dome, your computer overlords only knew you by your nine digit identification number, and you’d end your day fantasizing about a life before computers?
The January 18, 1969 Montreal Gazette ran this most peculiar comic, chock full of hilarious expositional dialogue and dystopian delights.
We follow the futuristic misadventures of George Daedalus, also known as Daeda 928 502 467, in the year 2000 AD. George lives in Oshtoham, Canada’s second largest city — which I’m guessing is a combination of the cities Oshawa, Toronto and Markham— and works as a travel agent. George lives his life surrounded by technological wonders like robot servants, videophones, moving sidewalks and 3D hologram walls, but we come to find out that he’s really just not that happy. The last panel shows George taking drugs and using a computer to escape his reality. Boy am I glad I don’t live in that future!*
*Is there an emoticon for nervous laughter?
Previously on Paleofuture:
The Disease of the Future (1970)
Going Backward Into 2000 (1966)
Disaster Response Vehicle (1960)
Moving Sidewalks by Goodyear (1956)
Technology and Man’s Future (1972)
Communities May Be Weatherized (1952)
