Ok, the future is here... where is all the cool stuff?

[Jugernot]

Anyone else wondering where all the supposed cool stuff the future was going to bring has gone? Where are the jet packs? Where are the pills that would be like eating a steak dinner? Where is the laptop that is thin, fast, lasts forever, and does everything? Where are the cars that drive themselves?

Dammit, I want some cool stuff!

What other stuff can you guys think of that isn't here yet...

 

[BatmanNate]

Holodecks.

 

[MailBoxHead]

It's bad enough bringing all the worlds outcasts together on internet forums.
We have more technology than we need.

 

[GoodToGo]

I can fart up in the air. Usually it used to be down. I am evolving.

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

Pfft you guys don't have Holodecks yet? I picked up mine yesterday at Walmart.

 

[Eli]

The thing keeping us from the majority of the things you mention is;

Energy. Well, rather, the lack of sources for it.

 

[pulse8]

The future isn't here. It's still the present.

 

[Syringer]

Yes, everyone knows all of this stuff is much more important than ridding the world of hunger, AIDs, and cancer..

 

[Evadman]

Car that drives itself: done.
flying car: done
jetpack: done

Can't do the computer yet. but 3 out of 4 ain't bad.

 

[CPA]

Originally posted by: Jugernot
Anyone else wondering where all the supposed cool stuff the future was going to bring has gone? Where are the jet packs? Where are the pills that would be like eating a steak dinner? Where is the laptop that is thin, fast, lasts forever, and does everything? Where are the cars that drive themselves?

Dammit, I want some cool stuff!

What other stuff can you guys think of that isn't here yet...

i've seen the cars that can drive themselves on Discovery or the Learning channel a while ago. Most of the stuff you mentioned, though, would probably be pushed down due to legislation. Can you see the politicians reacting to a jet pack, or the food industry buying votes to outlaw the steak dinner pill? I can.

 

[BatmanNate]

Originally posted by: Syringer
Yes, everyone knows all of this stuff is much more important than ridding the world of hunger, AIDs, and cancer..

The world turns where there is money to be made, and most of the time starving people with AIDS don't have it. Altruism does not drive technological advancement, profit does.

 

[CPA]

Originally posted by: Syringer
Yes, everyone knows all of this stuff is much more important than ridding the world of hunger, AIDs, and cancer..

 

[Maetryx]

Hey, we have cell phones. That's kind of like the future.

And I order stuff from my living froom that a few days later shows up at my front door, paid for with a series of numbers corresponding to an account I have at a credit institute.

That's a lot more advanced than taking green pieces of paper to a store, trading them for an item and then shipping the item home myself. It's the future, man!

I know what you mean about the rocket packs, though....

 

[gopunk]

we have the segway

 

[AvesPKS]

Are you kidding? Am I the only one who thinks I am in Futureworld every time I use a bathroom with auto-flushing toilets and automatic faucets?

 

[BatmanNate]

Originally posted by: AvesPKS
Are you kidding? Am I the only one who thinks I am in Futureworld every time I use a bathroom with auto-flushing toilets and automatic faucets?

Yeah those things are unreal.

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

Originally posted by: CPA

Originally posted by: Syringer
Yes, everyone knows all of this stuff is much more important than ridding the world of hunger, AIDs, and cancer..

 

[BatmanNate]

Love your nick, OREOspeedwagon.

 

[AvesPKS]

Originally posted by: BatmanNate

Originally posted by: AvesPKS
Are you kidding? Am I the only one who thinks I am in Futureworld every time I use a bathroom with auto-flushing toilets and automatic faucets?

Yeah those things are unreal.

Are you being serious or sarcastic? I know it sounds stupid, but I always feel like I'm in the future whenever I go into a bathroom equipped with these.

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

Originally posted by: BatmanNate
Love your nick, OREOspeedwagon.

Thanks!

 

[BatmanNate]

Originally posted by: AvesPKS

Originally posted by: BatmanNate

Originally posted by: AvesPKS
Are you kidding? Am I the only one who thinks I am in Futureworld every time I use a bathroom with auto-flushing toilets and automatic faucets?

Yeah those things are unreal.

Are you being serious or sarcastic? I know it sounds stupid, but I always feel like I'm in the future whenever I go into a bathroom equipped with these.

No, I'm serious. The only place I've seen them is at the air port and it gives me the willies still. :Q

 

[amishhonda]

eh, look how long its taken for the segway to take hold and I don't need to tell you how cool that thing is but nobody knows what to do with it! like we'd even know what to do with a jetpack... heck, I'm just getting a crotch rocket

 

[tcsenter]

We have terabytes of porn on demand. What possibly could be better than that?

 

[HombrePequeno]

Originally posted by: amishhonda
eh, look how long its taken for the segway to take hold and I don't need to tell you how cool that thing is but nobody knows what to do with it! like we'd even know what to do with a jetpack... heck, I'm just getting a crotch rocket

A guy a couple towns away got a Segway. He got it because he has some lung disease and he can't really walk around anywhere. It's a pity that a lot of cities are trying to ban them.