Broken Promises of the Future

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Robot maids, and an entire population wearing shiny jumpsuits. That's the future, damnit!

For the forest to be green, each leaf must be green....so if you want everyone to wear shiny jumpsuits, you'll have to get the ball rolling yourself.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

For the forest to be green, each leaf must be green....so if you want everyone to wear shiny jumpsuits, you'll have to get the ball rolling yourself.

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

[flippyshark]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

I saw half of Back to the Future II the other night, and we realized that 2015 is, well, only 10 years away.

So don't worry, we'll have self-fitting/self-drying clothes, hover boards, instant food hydration, dust-repellant paper (forgot that one, didn't you?) AND flying cars really soon.

Oh, and fax machines all over the house.

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.)

[Not Afraid]

I want my air conditioned suit. And I want it to be cute.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Where are my self opening/closing kitchen cabinets that make that oh-so-satisfying humming noise?

And I'm still waiting for reliable and useful voice recognition.

[Not Afraid]

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

[mousepod]

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...

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by mousepod

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...

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 )

[Name]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

1984 passed and there's no Big Brother watching my every move

Are you sure?(and I don't mean your employer)

Where is the tin foil hat smiley?

[Prudence]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

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 )

So you wait until I'm gone to have a perfectly splendid tinfoil hat thread?! Hrmph! I feel welling inside me a manifesto presenting Corporate America *as* Big Brother. Must be the week spent around my dad.