Coming Soon: The Future! or Where the Heck is My Flying Car?

Coming Soon: The Future! or Where the Heck is My Flying Car?

I can recollect it like it was yesterday, it’s a beautiful spring day in 1993 and I was sitting in my 3rd grade study room. We received children’s science mags and deliberating all of the fantastic gizmos within that were due in, THE FUTURE! Bigger PCs, smaller computers ( and even less expensive ones ), cameras with small screens that showed the photograph you just snapped, strong games systems with-wait for it….16 BITS! Whatever those are! The one thing that really stuck with me though, was the automated vehicle. It had something similar to a GPS built in, where you would program in coordinates and the automobile would follow those directions. How it might sense other automobiles, traffic lights, and stop signs, I have no idea and it actually failed to cross my mind at the time. The vehicle was meant to start on it’s own and drive to your destination, essentially chaffering you. And for some unknown reason there would be a microwave in the dashboard. At the end of the outline was the sentence, Even a 7 year old would be in a position to drive! Why, I was seven! That meant when this vehicle came out in the near future, I would be in a position to get one! Happy, I awaited the day my fabulous automated auto would roll off the production line. And waited, and waited and here I’m seventeen years on and the nearest thing to an automatic car is a strip of highway in japan that uses magnets to drag your automobile.

I am not getting it. I am not now in the future, where’s all of the hi-tech stuff?

Corporations have been advertising all the amazing things they are going to be putting out in THE FUTURE since their inception, yet perhaps only 1 percent of them ever reach the general public. More if they’re heavily redesigned. Why advertise something and promise to the public, but then not deliver? Duke Nuk’em for good anyone? In reality the self driving automobile has guaranteed to the public as far back as