For are parents the future looked promissing,teleporters, robot servents,kitchens that did every thing for you, and best of all flying cars, and all of that happenning before the year 2000.What the f**k happened.Its 2003 and we are still waiting for all of those cool technologys that were promised to are parents.I mean is are species just lazy or overly promising.What p**ses me off most is that we could have some of these technologys right now, if it wasn't for money hungry corporations, and lazy scientists.
There are a lot of very ingenious invetors out there who have come up with some very cool invetions, one of the coolest is anti-gravity. Since the end of WW2 there have been several scientist who have created anti-gravity machines, but for some reason or anouther all there efforts to introduce this technology was blocked by shady inividuals and large corporations.Whats wrong with people, think of the huge buissnes that could be done by introducing technologys like anti-gravity to the world.
Of course movies aren't helping.Movies like Minority Report,Back to the future 2,Blade Runner, and Terminator all show awsome technologys that we were supposed to have a decade ago, but so far can only materalise on the movie screen.
I suppose 20 years from now my kids will be asking the same question that im asking now, and thats were are my f**king flying cars.
I thought we were all supposed to be androgenous zombies working for the good of the State by now.
Given the inability of a lot of people to navigate 3000 lbs in two dimensions, I'm glad they don't have the option of going in three dimensions.
DAMMIT RAJ! Took the words right out of my mouth. Imagine the yahoos trying to drink their lattes and yak on their cell phones while FLYING. Makes me want to go dig a foxhole and hide.
Kirk
Yeah! I'm p**sed off that we don't have any of those cool gadgets too. Let's start a revolt!!! Seriously though, are we the dumbest muther F-ers or what? Japan has been whooping our ass with unbelievable technology.
There is a flying car, just not exactly thw type you are thinking of like in Back to the Future. There is one that is coming out a regular car with short wings kindof like a airplane. Of course it prob. gets crappy gas mileage. There also is a hover car that has been going under a lot of test in the past year or so. I can see there being lots of problems with hover vehicals or mini airplane cars. Lots of mid air crashes. The gas alone would be more expensive. I know I would rather stay on the ground.
wykednick - not to be a smartass, but it's "OUR parents" not "are parents."
Why would a "money hungry corporation" want to supress technology that is could be selling for huge profit by the millions?? That doesn't make any sense.
I can only guess how many forms&trainings would have to be filled out to operate a flying car. Off the top of my head:
Driver's license
Pilot's license
GPS training
Air traffic laws
ground traffic laws
restricted airspace zones
Plus, since 9/11 we'd probably have to fill out some form on anti-terrorism and by the time all this stuff was done, we'd be too old to fly the damn thing...
Just give me the wearable computer, the Jetsons' electric sidewalks and I'm good.
"Just give me the wearable computer."
My friend, I give you THE WEARABLE COMPUTER!
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I still want my virtual reality that everyone was supposed to have by 2000.....where is MY VR?!?!?!?
"I still want my virtual reality that everyone was supposed to have by 2000.....where is MY VR?!?!?!?"
I'm sure there's at least one Matrix geek on this board who'll tell you you're living in it RIGHT NOW, MAN!!!
There actually was a flying car built in the 60's. It looked like a small prop driven plane only when you landed you could take off the tail boom, wings, and prop and then drive it around like a car.
I too can imagine the problems with idiotic driviers. I wish we could have cars like they had in the Sixth Day. Get in and tell it to take you to work, the wheel goes into the dash and it drives you work. Maybe these automatic vehicles could actually merge onto the freeway, unlike most of the morons I see everyday.
Sure, gov regs require the computer do the driveing. But you KNOW some clown will hot wire it with a lap top, then its find a hole and hide time!
You know what Eirik you can take your proper grammer and correct spelling, and shove it.I can't spell and I suck at grammer just deal with it, and stop pestering me.
There's a very easy answer to this (which I hope didn't get covered in a post and I managed to miss it like seems to happen to me every now and again): Giant goddamn energy corporations like Enron RULING EVERYTHING AND SLOWING TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS TO A CRAWL!
Brother R
I have seen quite a few technological advances in my lifetime. When I was a kid, the following were either unavailable or were EXTREMELY uncommon:
* Cable TV
* Satellite TV
* High definition TV
* Stereo TV
* Projection TVs
* LCD TVs
* Plasma screen TVs
* Surround sound
* Cell phones
* Personal computers
* Internet access (which has thousands of sub-technologies associated with it, such as online banking, shopping, e-mail, etc.)
* Video games
* Cordless telephones
* Microwave ovens
* VCRs
* CD players
* DVD players
* Karaoke machines
* Movie theaters with stadium seating
* MRIs
* ATMs
* GPS systems
* Radar detectors
* Remote car starters
* Camcorders
* Palm pilots
* Voicemail
I could go on and on.
How did we ever survive?
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I'm glad there aren't flying cars, people are idiots enough on the road - imagine drunk drivers flying over your house....
For the mostpart we have alot of technology depicted in old tv shows - phones where you can see the person, portable movies and internet, the ability to buy and make reservations in a second by a click on your computer, microwaves that cook food in minutes. We even have doors that open automatically (albiet in stores only..i'm waiting for those to end up in our house) I also heard they're building the technology that the house become computerized from sprinklers to the cooking.
It reminds me of a story or poem I read in school - does anyone remember what I'm referring to? It went on describing the clock going off, sprinklers going on..all sorts of "electronic" activity but in the end I think there was an assumption that no humans were around (probably because we were extinct from nuclear war or something) - but the machines just went on without us doing their programmed duties.
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I'm actuallly glad some of it hasn't happened...I don't want the commercials to know my name like in MINORITY REPORT.
But it is amazing how much has changed in the last 10 years. I first got on the net 10 years ago when I was in college and it was nothing like it is today.
Susan wrote:
I'm glad there aren't flying cars, people are idiots enough on
the road - imagine drunk drivers flying over your house....
Imagine them flying INTO & right through your house!
Now that's scary.
Your one of those "The glass is half full" kind of people Burgomaster. But thats cool, Im more pessimistic and never very satisfied.
All I want is flying cars and robot slaves.Is that too much to ask.
"You know what Eirik you can take your proper grammer and correct spelling, and shove it.I can't spell and I suck at grammer just deal with it, and stop pestering me."
Fair enough - you're ignorant and proud. So what about the faulty logic of your argument? You know, how the big corporations are taking ideas they could turn huge profits off of and instead surpressing them because of some bizarre mysterious agenda?
That's a short story by Ray Bradbury you're thinking of. Part of his description was that one of the outer walls of the house was pitch black except for a couple of people shaped white patches. That was supposed to be the side of the house scorched by the flash of the nuclear blast which burned all the paint except that which was shielded by people standing in the yard. The only thing I can't remember about the story is the title. Sorry.
"There will come soft rains". A classic.
Heard Leonard Nemoy read it once. Beauty.
That's it Flangepart, Thanks! It was one of those stories that teased my mind all these years, now I can hunt for it on the net and read it again. :-) Didn't know ray brandbury wrote it
>I wish we could have cars like they had in the Sixth Day. Get in and tell it to take
>you to work, the wheel goes into the dash and it drives you work.
You stole my idea for a post! The sad part is that this is completely do-able with current technology. Embed transmitters in all the roads, equip the cars with sensors and program them with very detailed maps of the streets. Of course they'd also need sensors to detect other vehicles and avoid crashes, but that could be done.
>It reminds me of a story or poem I read in school
Speaking of old stories. Does anyone here know of a story where a teenager in the future is going through a ruined city and he thinks their god was named Ashing because he sees a statue of Washington with a broken name plate? I read it in school many years ago.
Susan : See if you can get the Nemoy reading. Or, the Comic collection of Bradbury stories. They did a nice turn on that one. Although, seeing a specific artistic interpitation of his work, does clash with the images i got while reading "The golden apples of the sun". I still have that paperback, in fact.
I've heard the Nimoy reading of this story about the automatic house. I believe it is part of The Martian Chronicles (which unlike the miniseries with Rock Hudson is actually a collections of stories).
Too bad you can download the nimoy clip on the net ...couldn't find it