Broken Promises of the Future

[Motorboat Cruiser]

I thought that we would have many of the gadgets from the original Star Trek series by now. I thought we would have the magic food machines where you just told it what you wanted and it could make anything appear almost instantly. Then again, I thought we might have the three basic staple gadgets; the tricorder, phaser, and communicator. We've come close, I suppose, with the palm pilot, taser, and cell phone, but they don't look as nifty, nor make the same cool sounds.

Also from Star Trek, I realized early on that the drinks in the future were usually a very cool blue color. Much to my relief, the blue drinks do exist, and my experience has been that they usually pack a punch. At least something lived up to the hype.

I suppose I feel the most disappointment for the lack of flying cars though. I thought the Jetsons would accurately reflect the future for some strange reason and we could remove ourselves from the burdens of traffic. I hope we have at least a couple of guys working on that one somewhere. I'm obviously not the only one who wonders what the hell happened to the flying cars.