No, no, no. They must be issued by the benevolant socialist world government. Shiny jumpsuits, for the good of all people.

I think that, instead of shiney jumpsuits, we got school uniforms.

The thing I'm really looking forward to from that particular future is the release of JAWS 19. ("This time it's REALLY personal") This means that there will have to be fifteen more JAWS movies in the next decade. They better get busy. (Sadly, no matter how terrible they all are, I'd be first in line.)

Oh GOD me too!! That and there was one type of marker that always smelled so good, not the ones that were fruity just a marker smell! Damn this swiss cheese memory of mine what were they called!! :blush:

I know that €uro's OP was referring to the cool 50's and early 60's vision of the future, with rayguns and flying cars and all, but my early sci-fi experience was with the dystopian ideas of Logan's Run, Silent Running and J.G. Ballard. So while I'm sad that space flight isn't like jumping on a plane like in 2001:ASO, I'm also glad that I made it past 30 and the only Carousel I've been to is in a Disney Park...

You've not hear the people talking on the Nextel Walkie Talkies?

But now that i think about it, I don't remember really expecting anything outrageous by this time. Looking around though, I see many places that we have stepped backwards and revisted technologies of the past, for example, watched some PBS show where there are folks making full blown houses out of bales of hay. Almost nostalgic to the pyramid days, except those were mud and straw mixture. But I don't remember ever having a thought that I would have such a powerful computer sitting next to me in my own home, or that I would be able to walk around anywhere and be reachable by phone at anytime(almost).

How about the fact that medical diagnostic tools remincent of tricorders are coming very close to being reality. The technology to gather data about what lies beneath your skin by waving a device over it exists. Now it's just a matter of finding meaningful interpretations of that data.

Sure. Used to have one, in fact. I was including that type of device in the cell phone catagory but the more I think about it, the Nextel two-way radios are probably closer to the communicator than a cell phone.

Moving sidewalks is so broken of a future promise that they've even removed it from the "new" Space Mountain.


As for me, I was certain personal space travel would be available by now.



More important, and not to kill the buzz of this lighthearted thread ... but growing up in the 60's I was sure that 2005 would see no more racism, no more misogny, no more homophobia, no more religion and no more war.

I'm really rather disappointed.

Nah, I'm looking at all the fears and promises - 1984 passed and there's no Big Brother watching my every move (Now it's just my employer ;) )