Back in the 1960s when I was a kid, we were led to believe that the 21st Century would be clean and disease free. Cars would be faster and fashion slicker in the world of tomorrow. Magazines and TV promised a brighter future from the dinge I remember as the 60s.
I imagined a future where food would consist of a pill you popped to satisfy all your nutritional needs and housework would be something that was taken care of by a robot, as it silently swept along all your wipe-clean, modular surfaces. I wanted to live in Tomorrow's World.
Back then my world was a world of slide rules and tinned food where computers were the size of rooms and telephone numbers were three digits long - if you were lucky enough to own a phone. Music came in three speeds and the closest we got to a designer label was St Michael. Much has changed since then.
Indeed, much has changed but much remains the same; regretably, I don't have a robot to clean the flat and food, thankfully, is not a tasteless pill popped once a day. Sadly the 21st Century is dirtier than it was 40 years ago and, for all our sophistication and technological advances, we live in a world that is far from disease free.
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