have you been let down by the future?

[koopkooper]

You know when I was growing up in the late 70's watching rerun tv shows like Lost in Space, the Jetsons and other futuristic shows I kinda expected the world to be a little different when I became an adult.

I expected to have a special jet backpack that could fly me to work, perhaps a flying car, a wristwatch phone and regular trips to the moon....alas it didn't happen. Now maybe I was a kid who watched too many reruns or perhaps the future is just not what it's cracked up to be...whadya think?

What did you expect the future to be like when you were a kid?

Kooper

 

[Matt Deckard]

The future isn't what it used to be.

Where is my jet pack and my robot and my flying car?

Thank god for the communicator

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Science fiction films and TV shows with dates in the title and storyline. What a letdown!



-- "Space: 1999". I'm still waiting for the moon to get blown out of its orbit!

-- "2001: A Space Odyssey". Yeah, right!

-- "2010". See above. In fact, the real 2010 won't even be like "2001".

-- "Blade Runner". We're getting awfully close to 2016, and I'm not seeing any weirdos speaking Japanese/English/Spanish pidgin in downtown L.A., ---let alone Daryl Hannah doing backflips.


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[Matt Deckard]

I prefer the distopic flicks, though they aren't seen nowadays. I think the vision of the future is lost in the creative dark ages in which we are currently living.

When they redid Tomorrowland it should have been the same land just with Grafitti and mutants in torn up costumes. No... they had to take a past vision of the future which looked hunky dory and brass and copper up the place.

 

[Senator Jack]

I expected it to be what it is now - but with a lot more women.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

They're on the moon, Jack ... and they're catlike.

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[Matt Deckard]

Come to LA... more women. They ship the best looking ones out here when they turn 18 and put them to work in diners until they are ready for Television.

 

[Matt Deckard]

Oh... and check out this thread and tell me what you think.

Days of Future Past
http://www.lottaliving.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=3250&highlight=future

 

[MrBern]

stop complaining

you could read the blog by one of the first private citizens in space

http://spaceblog.xprize.org/by-anousheh/

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Where are the monoliths? Where is HAL? Where is Barbara Bain?

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[scotrace]

You have to choose. Red pill? Or blue pill?

 

[Senator Jack]

Ummm.....I've been using the blue pill.

 

[Matt Deckard]

Where are the monoliths? Where is HAL? Where is Barbara Bain?

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Barbara Bain is in LA with her husband.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Where is the half-buried Statue of Liberty on the beach?

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[Maj.Nick Danger]

It IS sort of a disappointment.

But maybe we expected a bit too much? And too soon.
We do have robots like Honda's Asimo. We have ever improving computer technology. We have all that technology really, but we haven't the means to make it all practical.
Maybe in time? [huh]

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Barbara Bain is in LA with her husband.

She got off the Moon, huh?

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[Marc Chevalier]

But seriously ... the future has given us some futuristically futuristic stuff:


MP3. Blackberry. Bluetooth. Coffee-flavored Coke. The Governator.


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[Lincsong]

No because I'm always looking for that shining city on a hill.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

The once and future King, eh?

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[Senator Jack]

'My friends, we are all interested in the future, for that is where we will spend the rest of our lives.'

- The Amazing Criswell
- Plan Nine From Outer Space