In the year 2000...

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Popular Mechanics, 1950:


"Because everything in her home is waterproof, the housewife of 2000 can do her daily cleaning with a hose".

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It's real, I think. It turned up on Language Log (http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003539.html) in the context of "in the future, technology will have changed but gender stereotypes won't".

The house of 2000 has no books (at least, not after that madwoman's been round with the hose it doesn't), no ornaments, nothing fragile at all...