Where's my flying cars? Thread

[Surf314]

End of a decade, tell me what you thought we'd have by now and why it makes you sad panda.

[Surf314]

For me it's flying cars. And affordable SSDs.

[CaffeinePowered]

Colony on the moon, fuck you 1950s and 1960s America for getting my hopes up

[Eightball]

More applications for BCI (Brain-Computer Interfacing). I know it exists, I know we can find uses for it, we just haven't seen anything neat yet. Other than people playing Space Invaders with their minds.

[[fr31ns]Karrde]

Actually, I'd agree with eightball   But to be fair they've come a long way   They've got people and animals controlling mechanical arms and shit now.  Not complicated ones, but it's a start and may help para/quadriplegics walk/interact again.  Let's see though....

TBH, I thought we'd have AIDS licked by now.

[zaneyard]

I never really speculated on it, but I think mechanical and computational augumentations would be sweet.
It's not like our race is going to evolve any more.

[K2]

The three seashells.

[CaffeinePowered]

I never really speculated on it, but I think mechanical and computational augumentations would be sweet.
It's not like our race is going to evolve any more.

[Squishy3]

[quote author=zaneyard link=topic=3978.msg126882#msg126882 date=1260902961]
I never really speculated on it, but I think mechanical and computational augumentations would be sweet.
It's not like our race is going to evolve any more.

[/quote]Exactly what I was thinking

[backfire]

Oh exactly what I was thinking. I mean, it's almost 10 years past when The Jetsons takes place. We don't have flying cars, affordable robot maids, houses miles in the sky. I mean, I thought by this time we'd at least have a colony set up on either Mars or even the bloody moon. And at this point in time, even after knowing there's so many other suns and moons out there, we're still calling ours THE SUN or THE MOON. It's Sol and Luna for crying out loud. Oh yeah, and we still haven't found a good way of producing energy from a renewable energy source without having to set up hundreds of turbines across a huge landscape.

"The Future" was overhyped.

[Surf314]

I'd like to see post-humanism taken to something more useful instead of just beauty modification.

[Dtrain323i]

"The Future" was overhyped.

then explain boob jobs and free internet porn.

[zaneyard]

and why doesn't my frying pan fit four eggs yet
this is bullshit

[Eschatos]

Where the fuck is my cold fusion? 

[Versus]

More applications for BCI (Brain-Computer Interfacing). I know it exists, I know we can find uses for it, we just haven't seen anything neat yet. Other than people playing Space Invaders with their minds.

this

also fusion power >:O

[Geoff]

In the year 200x...

[Turtle]

another Xbox. (i want to see what they will call it.)

Nuclear Holocaust. (Countries aren't friendly, it's a fact.)

Aliens. (E.T. can go home, but he better come back.)

Dead Gabe Newell (see: Nuclear Holocaust.)

A black president (hey look we got one)

[Benito Mussolini]

Teleportation?

Why should I still ride busses and subways in 2010?

[KarthXLR]

A third season of Megas XLR. ;_;


oh, that and the fact that all the stuff in futurama never happened.

[backfire]

oh, that and the fact that all the stuff in futurama never happened.

Yeah, where my Baywatch movie shot entirely in slow-motion?