As we approach the year 2020, I'm reminded of an old cartoon I watched as a kid, Sealab 2020:
Does anyone else remember that show? I don't think it was on for very long, and it certainly didn't have the popularity of the Roadrunner.
But here it is, almost 2020, and we have no Sealab. I'm not saying that we should build one, but just noting it for the record.
In Back to the Future, we were supposed to have flying cars by 2015, and that didn't happen either.
Don't get me wrong. I'm certainly glad the world didn't end in 1997, as The Terminator predicted. I'm also glad that Orwell's prediction of 1984 didn't turn out as bleak as expected. But we were supposed to have had a Moon base and a manned mission to Jupiter by at least 2001, according to the movie of that same name. The movie Outland had established mining colonies on Jupiter's moons by the late 1990s.
Another piece of near-future sci-fi technology was from Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. While Ricardo Montalban's character was being interrogated by the police about the whereabouts of the talking ape, they introduced him to "the authenticator," which, according to the dialog, "makes you tell the truth." I wish we had something like that, but alas, we don't.
What are some other things we were predicted to have by now that we don't have? Have we been cheated out of a better future?
Now that we're in "the future" (from a certain perspective), did it turn out like you expected it to be?
Does anyone else remember that show? I don't think it was on for very long, and it certainly didn't have the popularity of the Roadrunner.
But here it is, almost 2020, and we have no Sealab. I'm not saying that we should build one, but just noting it for the record.
In Back to the Future, we were supposed to have flying cars by 2015, and that didn't happen either.
Don't get me wrong. I'm certainly glad the world didn't end in 1997, as The Terminator predicted. I'm also glad that Orwell's prediction of 1984 didn't turn out as bleak as expected. But we were supposed to have had a Moon base and a manned mission to Jupiter by at least 2001, according to the movie of that same name. The movie Outland had established mining colonies on Jupiter's moons by the late 1990s.
Another piece of near-future sci-fi technology was from Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. While Ricardo Montalban's character was being interrogated by the police about the whereabouts of the talking ape, they introduced him to "the authenticator," which, according to the dialog, "makes you tell the truth." I wish we had something like that, but alas, we don't.
What are some other things we were predicted to have by now that we don't have? Have we been cheated out of a better future?
Now that we're in "the future" (from a certain perspective), did it turn out like you expected it to be?