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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

When i was growing up the future looked amazing flying cars lightsabers hover boards hover boots robot servants im now in my 40s and none of it happened

Useless

What thing were you waiting for as a youngster that science let you down on?????

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Absolutely flying cars. That was all that was fed to my with science fiction. From music videos and tv and films. Where are they??!!!!

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By *rincessPuddleDuck22Woman
over a year ago

.•°°

Being able to clone pets.•°

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

Ending malnutrition

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By *riar BelisseWoman
over a year ago

Bliss

Back To The Future being a bunch of bullshit made me sad

I wanted rehydration pizza and those shoes for aaaaages...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It takes a global catastrophe to advance science rapidly, like a global pandemic or a world war. Be careful what you wish for...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There is a restaurant where i live that has robots who serve you instead of a human!

As close as you may get with that one

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Back To The Future being a bunch of bullshit made me sad

I wanted rehydration pizza and those shoes for aaaaages..."

What about the car?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Also a fat burning pill that actually works

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By *ang bang bangity bangCouple
over a year ago

Sunderland

Hover boards from Back To The Future

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By *riar BelisseWoman
over a year ago

Bliss


"Back To The Future being a bunch of bullshit made me sad

I wanted rehydration pizza and those shoes for aaaaages...

What about the car? "

Nah it was too unreliable in starting

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

Planes are flying cars we are chauffeured around in.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Back To The Future being a bunch of bullshit made me sad

I wanted rehydration pizza and those shoes for aaaaages..."

Ah those shoes! I wanted them so bad! They did try (nike I think) but it just wasn't good enough. Like, lace yourselves ya lazy biatch shoesies

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Planes are flying cars we are chauffeured around in. "
but they had them in the 80s already

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"It takes a global catastrophe to advance science rapidly, like a global pandemic or a world war. Be careful what you wish for..."
need to think what disaster will make hoverboard and lightsabers a requirement when theres an answer im in

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

Those trousers from Wallace and Grommit's "The Wrong Trousers". And the device in the same film that would tip you out of bed, into your keks and serve you breakfast

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I based my whole future from watching marty mcfly.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"It takes a global catastrophe to advance science rapidly, like a global pandemic or a world war. Be careful what you wish for...need to think what disaster will make hoverboard and lightsabers a requirement when theres an answer im in "

Now this is where it's at! Right! Let's all antagonize Putin! I want to wield my lightsabre on a hoverboard

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By *hortarseWoman
over a year ago

Norfolk


"Also a fat burning pill that actually works"

I been looking for one them. If you find any I let you fuck my anus for one

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Also a fat burning pill that actually works

I been looking for one them. If you find any I let you fuck my anus for one "

thats a deal

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Science:

Inevitable: You are nuffin, you are a fool and you are a waste of time. Goodnight

Science:

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By *annaBeStrongMan
over a year ago

wokingham


"Also a fat burning pill that actually works

I been looking for one them. If you find any I let you fuck my anus for one thats a deal "

There are some that work but they’re pretty rough

I thought we’d have more robots by now. Like doing cool stuff, and affordable

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Science:

Inevitable: You are nuffin, you are a fool and you are a waste of time. Goodnight

Science: "

last word means i win boom yeah i dont say nuffin tho ever

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Also a fat burning pill that actually works

I been looking for one them. If you find any I let you fuck my anus for one thats a deal

There are some that work but they’re pretty rough

I thought we’d have more robots by now. Like doing cool stuff, and affordable "

like dot matrix in spaceballs with built in roller boots and one fab would love chastity alarm

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I based my whole future from watching marty mcfly.

"

mine was on doc

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I based my whole future from watching marty mcfly.

mine was on doc "

That's probably a wiser choice.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I would dearly love a pod racer...

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By *RANDMRSJAECouple
over a year ago

chester


"Also a fat burning pill that actually works

I been looking for one them. If you find any I let you fuck my anus for one "

Phentermine!!

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By *RANDMRSJAECouple
over a year ago

chester

I’m still old school! I do prefer a colour tv though

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By *lovebustyladiesMan
over a year ago

Birmingham


"There is a restaurant where i live that has robots who serve you instead of a human!

As close as you may get with that one "

Yes MacDonalds

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By *91kMan
over a year ago

Maidstone

When they gonna do Jurassic park? We all know it will go terribly wrong of course, but still wanna see a t-rex fucking some shit up

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By *lovebustyladiesMan
over a year ago

Birmingham


"When i was growing up the future looked amazing flying cars lightsabers hover boards hover boots robot servants im now in my 40s and none of it happened

Useless

What thing were you waiting for as a youngster that science let you down on????? "

Might try wierd science n crocodile clip Kelly me Brock

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West


"When they gonna do Jurassic park? We all know it will go terribly wrong of course, but still wanna see a t-rex fucking some shit up "

Find us an ancient insect in some amber, and we'll see what we can do

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Those shoes are on sale!

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By *iberius61Man
over a year ago

Pontefract

Space exploration. Bases on the moon and even Mars by now I thought we would have.

We are further ahead in some ways, online ordering with next day delivery, personal electronics; ok no hoverboards, but my phone is almost never used to phone anyone, in fact all communication has advanced a lot. Work from home is almost expected nowadays with just a few luddites fighting it.

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By *inger_SnapWoman
over a year ago

Hampshire/Dorset


"Being able to clone pets.•° "

That's been done

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By *iberius61Man
over a year ago

Pontefract


"When they gonna do Jurassic park? We all know it will go terribly wrong of course, but still wanna see a t-rex fucking some shit up"

Sadly, they'd have a terrible headache due to the fact that our atmosphere has nearly double the oxygen they'd be used to. Mammoths and some other mega fauna however is perfectly feasible, even by technology available today. Just needs someone to pay for it...and somewhere to put them.

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By *auti Lass and MoleCouple
over a year ago

Bicester


"Back To The Future being a bunch of bullshit made me sad

I wanted rehydration pizza and those shoes for aaaaages..."

Nike made Michael J Fox some of those shoes so they could be auctioned off for charities.

£20000 I think they got bought for.

You can get rehydration toy dinosaurs, so pizza is clearly the next step. Fingers crossed.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Also a fat burning pill that actually works

I been looking for one them. If you find any I let you fuck my anus for one

Phentermine!!"

bumming for you

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

I want silver space suits to be standard dress for everyone.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"There is a restaurant where i live that has robots who serve you instead of a human!

As close as you may get with that one

Yes MacDonalds"

Incorrect

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

Bionic body reolacement parts, lose an arm or leg, get a much better one.

Bit like Cyberpunk

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West


"Bionic body reolacement parts, lose an arm or leg, get a much better one.

Bit like Cyberpunk"

If you can afford it (and you have an agreeable stump), such things exist already.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town


"When i was growing up the future looked amazing flying cars lightsabers hover boards hover boots robot servants im now in my 40s and none of it happened

Useless

What thing were you waiting for as a youngster that science let you down on????? "

Heat light water and food I can afford

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

When i wanted blue milk i didnt mean the label

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

And while I'm on.. How is raspberry flavour slurpie blue?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Basically all science has achieved in the last 15 years is adding Bluetooth to everything.

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By *riar BelisseWoman
over a year ago

Bliss


"Back To The Future being a bunch of bullshit made me sad

I wanted rehydration pizza and those shoes for aaaaages...

Nike made Michael J Fox some of those shoes so they could be auctioned off for charities.

£20000 I think they got bought for.

You can get rehydration toy dinosaurs, so pizza is clearly the next step. Fingers crossed."

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town


"Basically all science has achieved in the last 15 years is adding Bluetooth to everything."

I think you'll find adding "i" in front of anything makes it new and spiffy.

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Time travel. My goto film as a lad was The Time Machine with Rod Taylor.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When you were a teenager, though, wouldn’t you have only dreamt about getting porn on your phone, rather than going to at least 3 newsagents before you were brave enough to buy a copy of Razzle?

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over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've seen people drive, keep them away from things that fly please.

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By *elvet RopeMan
over a year ago

by the big field

As a significant number of people seem to think the earth is flat and covid was just made up by the press, don’t hold your breath

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By *ockosaurusMan
over a year ago

Warwick

Have you noticed that the future depicted in books has been flying cars, robots, etc. for a really long time now (for example I, Robot was written by Isaac Asimov in 1950), yet modern books vision of the future is still very much the same.

Why has no one been able to see passed these and imagine further into the future?

Have we no longer got the sort of visionaries we used to, or have we just got to the limit of our imaginations?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I've seen people drive, keep them away from things that fly please. "

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By *J coupleCouple
over a year ago

stone

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Absolutely flying cars. That was all that was fed to my with science fiction. From music videos and tv and films. Where are they??!!!! "

The clue is in the word “fiction”

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By *J coupleCouple
over a year ago

stone


"I've seen people drive, keep them away from things that fly please. "

Yes I totally agree. I fly and feel quite safe up there. The last thing I want is a whole load of chavs flying around me within a 5 mile radius!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Have you noticed that the future depicted in books has been flying cars, robots, etc. for a really long time now (for example I, Robot was written by Isaac Asimov in 1950), yet modern books vision of the future is still very much the same.

Why has no one been able to see passed these and imagine further into the future?

Have we no longer got the sort of visionaries we used to, or have we just got to the limit of our imaginations? "

Robots are still in stories because it’s a very human thing to wonder about the nature of “being”... It’s similar to the reason ghosts have been in stories for thousands of years

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I would like to look at this from a different direction

I see what we have now compared to when I was a kid.

3 tv channels in black and white now we have cable tv on flat screen hd.

How we listen to music dramatic change from my huge record collection to now an iPod holding over thousand songs playing through my Bluetooth speaker.

Mobile phones, iPads, electric cars

I think we have so much stuff to thank science for

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm still feeling short changed from no zombies yet. All that preparation during Lockdown 0.5 for nothing... So far anyways

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By *iamondCougarWoman
over a year ago

Norfuck! / Lincolnshire

Smarties for breakfast, lunch and dinner!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Teleportation

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By *ockosaurusMan
over a year ago

Warwick


"I've seen people drive, keep them away from things that fly please.

Yes I totally agree. I fly and feel quite safe up there. The last thing I want is a whole load of chavs flying around me within a 5 mile radius!"

We are starting to get automated road vehicles, so I highly doubt flying cars will be manual.

Basically we'll be strapping ourselves to Amazon Delivery drones.

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By *ockosaurusMan
over a year ago

Warwick


"Teleportation"

Beam me up Wonko!

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town


"I've seen people drive, keep them away from things that fly please.

Yes I totally agree. I fly and feel quite safe up there. The last thing I want is a whole load of chavs flying around me within a 5 mile radius!

We are starting to get automated road vehicles, so I highly doubt flying cars will be manual.

Basically we'll be strapping ourselves to Amazon Delivery drones. "

We can't even agree on the laws around driverless cars. Can you imagine the Pandoras box that will be opened when we start commuting with jet packs and flying cars?

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town


"I would like to look at this from a different direction

I see what we have now compared to when I was a kid.

3 tv channels in black and white now we have cable tv on flat screen hd.

How we listen to music dramatic change from my huge record collection to now an iPod holding over thousand songs playing through my Bluetooth speaker.

Mobile phones, iPads, electric cars

I think we have so much stuff to thank science for "

I agree, we have much stuff. I sincerely question whether very much of the stuff makes us happier, healthier or wiser than before we had all the "stuff".

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By *hoirCouple
over a year ago

Clacton/Bury St. Edmunds


"Back To The Future being a bunch of bullshit made me sad

I wanted rehydration pizza and those shoes for aaaaages..."

They made those shoes...

There was also a prototype actual hoverboard.

C

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By *lynJMan
over a year ago

Morden


"Also a fat burning pill that actually works

I been looking for one them. If you find any I let you fuck my anus for one thats a deal

There are some that work but they’re pretty rough

I thought we’d have more robots by now. Like doing cool stuff, and affordable "

Define "cool stuff"

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By *ockosaurusMan
over a year ago

Warwick


"I've seen people drive, keep them away from things that fly please.

Yes I totally agree. I fly and feel quite safe up there. The last thing I want is a whole load of chavs flying around me within a 5 mile radius!

We are starting to get automated road vehicles, so I highly doubt flying cars will be manual.

Basically we'll be strapping ourselves to Amazon Delivery drones.

We can't even agree on the laws around driverless cars. Can you imagine the Pandoras box that will be opened when we start commuting with jet packs and flying cars? "

Road cars are much more complex, as the driverless systems have to manage manual drivers, pedestrians and also handle road systems designed for people.

If all flying cars were auto, it would be much, much simpler to implement.

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By *lynJMan
over a year ago

Morden


"I've seen people drive, keep them away from things that fly please.

Yes I totally agree. I fly and feel quite safe up there. The last thing I want is a whole load of chavs flying around me within a 5 mile radius!

We are starting to get automated road vehicles, so I highly doubt flying cars will be manual.

Basically we'll be strapping ourselves to Amazon Delivery drones.

We can't even agree on the laws around driverless cars. Can you imagine the Pandoras box that will be opened when we start commuting with jet packs and flying cars?

Road cars are much more complex, as the driverless systems have to manage manual drivers, pedestrians and also handle road systems designed for people.

If all flying cars were auto, it would be much, much simpler to implement. "

Wouldn't they need to be self driving for the road as well as in the air?

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By *ockosaurusMan
over a year ago

Warwick


"I've seen people drive, keep them away from things that fly please.

Yes I totally agree. I fly and feel quite safe up there. The last thing I want is a whole load of chavs flying around me within a 5 mile radius!

We are starting to get automated road vehicles, so I highly doubt flying cars will be manual.

Basically we'll be strapping ourselves to Amazon Delivery drones.

We can't even agree on the laws around driverless cars. Can you imagine the Pandoras box that will be opened when we start commuting with jet packs and flying cars?

Road cars are much more complex, as the driverless systems have to manage manual drivers, pedestrians and also handle road systems designed for people.

If all flying cars were auto, it would be much, much simpler to implement.

Wouldn't they need to be self driving for the road as well as in the air? "

Why? It could easily be a hybrid.

Also, why would you want to drive on the road if you could fly?

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By *lynJMan
over a year ago

Morden


"I've seen people drive, keep them away from things that fly please.

Yes I totally agree. I fly and feel quite safe up there. The last thing I want is a whole load of chavs flying around me within a 5 mile radius!

We are starting to get automated road vehicles, so I highly doubt flying cars will be manual.

Basically we'll be strapping ourselves to Amazon Delivery drones.

We can't even agree on the laws around driverless cars. Can you imagine the Pandoras box that will be opened when we start commuting with jet packs and flying cars?

Road cars are much more complex, as the driverless systems have to manage manual drivers, pedestrians and also handle road systems designed for people.

If all flying cars were auto, it would be much, much simpler to implement.

Wouldn't they need to be self driving for the road as well as in the air?

Why? It could easily be a hybrid.

Also, why would you want to drive on the road if you could fly?"

I guess it depends on how you get in the air. Vertical take off does tend to use a lot more energy than a take off from a runway.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When i was growing up the future looked amazing flying cars lightsabers hover boards hover boots robot servants im now in my 40s and none of it happened

Useless

What thing were you waiting for as a youngster that science let you down on????? "

Sorry if this might be overly philosophical but the reasons why you may have been disappointed isn't because Science has let you down, it's because of a lack of humanity. Think about all the senseless lives lost to things like wars (especially those over religion and oil) mass shootings (even though I know that's not a thing in the UK) think of the lack of a first class education in some of the poorest countries in the world.

All these things have robbed us of the potential of thousands maybe even millions of brilliant minds who could have pushed the boundaries of Astrophysics, Aeronautical engineering, medicine, molecular biology and bio engineering.

So yea, until we learn to look past religion, gender, race, sexual orientation etc, we will never truly harness the human potential and maximise what we can achieve as a species. (Very passionate about this but that's my 2 cents)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Have you noticed that the future depicted in books has been flying cars, robots, etc. for a really long time now (for example I, Robot was written by Isaac Asimov in 1950), yet modern books vision of the future is still very much the same.

Why has no one been able to see passed these and imagine further into the future?

Have we no longer got the sort of visionaries we used to, or have we just got to the limit of our imaginations? "

I feel like books and films that depict the future these days are all set in some apocalyptic world where there's not enough of anything to sustain life and it's back to days of fighting to survive and bartering with Nuka Cola caps to get some decent scran

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By *adyBugsWoman
over a year ago

cognito

Like all that stuff that used to be on that TV show Tomorrow’s World?

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By *adyBugsWoman
over a year ago

cognito


"I'm still feeling short changed from no zombies yet. All that preparation during Lockdown 0.5 for nothing... So far anyways "

Same

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By *ockosaurusMan
over a year ago

Warwick


"Have you noticed that the future depicted in books has been flying cars, robots, etc. for a really long time now (for example I, Robot was written by Isaac Asimov in 1950), yet modern books vision of the future is still very much the same.

Why has no one been able to see passed these and imagine further into the future?

Have we no longer got the sort of visionaries we used to, or have we just got to the limit of our imaginations?

I feel like books and films that depict the future these days are all set in some apocalyptic world where there's not enough of anything to sustain life and it's back to days of fighting to survive and bartering with Nuka Cola caps to get some decent scran

"

A Fallout fan!

But yeah, that does seem to be where they are leading.

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By *ockosaurusMan
over a year ago

Warwick


"Like all that stuff that used to be on that TV show Tomorrow’s World?"

Like DVDs that can't be scratched!

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By *ockosaurusMan
over a year ago

Warwick


"I've seen people drive, keep them away from things that fly please.

Yes I totally agree. I fly and feel quite safe up there. The last thing I want is a whole load of chavs flying around me within a 5 mile radius!

We are starting to get automated road vehicles, so I highly doubt flying cars will be manual.

Basically we'll be strapping ourselves to Amazon Delivery drones.

We can't even agree on the laws around driverless cars. Can you imagine the Pandoras box that will be opened when we start commuting with jet packs and flying cars?

Road cars are much more complex, as the driverless systems have to manage manual drivers, pedestrians and also handle road systems designed for people.

If all flying cars were auto, it would be much, much simpler to implement.

Wouldn't they need to be self driving for the road as well as in the air?

Why? It could easily be a hybrid.

Also, why would you want to drive on the road if you could fly?

I guess it depends on how you get in the air. Vertical take off does tend to use a lot more energy than a take off from a runway.

"

VTOL is the only way forward.

Without that you'd have to have landing strips everywhere, which surely makes them much less feasible and useful.

Yes, it uses more energy, but that needs to be something we resolve.

Fusion Home Energy Reactors! That's what we need!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Confusing science and science fiction

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By *eavy-Metal-CoupleCouple
over a year ago

Liverpool

As a Judge Dredd reader Mega Cities also flying cars

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By *lynJMan
over a year ago

Morden


"I've seen people drive, keep them away from things that fly please.

Yes I totally agree. I fly and feel quite safe up there. The last thing I want is a whole load of chavs flying around me within a 5 mile radius!

We are starting to get automated road vehicles, so I highly doubt flying cars will be manual.

Basically we'll be strapping ourselves to Amazon Delivery drones.

We can't even agree on the laws around driverless cars. Can you imagine the Pandoras box that will be opened when we start commuting with jet packs and flying cars?

Road cars are much more complex, as the driverless systems have to manage manual drivers, pedestrians and also handle road systems designed for people.

If all flying cars were auto, it would be much, much simpler to implement.

Wouldn't they need to be self driving for the road as well as in the air?

Why? It could easily be a hybrid.

Also, why would you want to drive on the road if you could fly?

I guess it depends on how you get in the air. Vertical take off does tend to use a lot more energy than a take off from a runway.

VTOL is the only way forward.

Without that you'd have to have landing strips everywhere, which surely makes them much less feasible and useful.

Yes, it uses more energy, but that needs to be something we resolve.

Fusion Home Energy Reactors! That's what we need! "

So, if we aren't going to drive them on the surface, why call them cars?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sustainable energy

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By *ockosaurusMan
over a year ago

Warwick


"I've seen people drive, keep them away from things that fly please.

Yes I totally agree. I fly and feel quite safe up there. The last thing I want is a whole load of chavs flying around me within a 5 mile radius!

We are starting to get automated road vehicles, so I highly doubt flying cars will be manual.

Basically we'll be strapping ourselves to Amazon Delivery drones.

We can't even agree on the laws around driverless cars. Can you imagine the Pandoras box that will be opened when we start commuting with jet packs and flying cars?

Road cars are much more complex, as the driverless systems have to manage manual drivers, pedestrians and also handle road systems designed for people.

If all flying cars were auto, it would be much, much simpler to implement.

Wouldn't they need to be self driving for the road as well as in the air?

Why? It could easily be a hybrid.

Also, why would you want to drive on the road if you could fly?

I guess it depends on how you get in the air. Vertical take off does tend to use a lot more energy than a take off from a runway.

VTOL is the only way forward.

Without that you'd have to have landing strips everywhere, which surely makes them much less feasible and useful.

Yes, it uses more energy, but that needs to be something we resolve.

Fusion Home Energy Reactors! That's what we need!

So, if we aren't going to drive them on the surface, why call them cars?"

I don't know, but I wouldn't want them to restrict what they do, just to fit a name they have been given in Sci-fi.

There have been loads of things given names that aren't actually true to what they are (like those bloody 'hoverboards' kids ride around on)

Call them something else if needed.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The warp engine

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to 1 he says?

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town


"The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to 1 he says?"

But still, they come

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By *lynJMan
over a year ago

Morden


"I've seen people drive, keep them away from things that fly please.

Yes I totally agree. I fly and feel quite safe up there. The last thing I want is a whole load of chavs flying around me within a 5 mile radius!

We are starting to get automated road vehicles, so I highly doubt flying cars will be manual.

Basically we'll be strapping ourselves to Amazon Delivery drones.

We can't even agree on the laws around driverless cars. Can you imagine the Pandoras box that will be opened when we start commuting with jet packs and flying cars?

Road cars are much more complex, as the driverless systems have to manage manual drivers, pedestrians and also handle road systems designed for people.

If all flying cars were auto, it would be much, much simpler to implement.

Wouldn't they need to be self driving for the road as well as in the air?

Why? It could easily be a hybrid.

Also, why would you want to drive on the road if you could fly?

I guess it depends on how you get in the air. Vertical take off does tend to use a lot more energy than a take off from a runway.

VTOL is the only way forward.

Without that you'd have to have landing strips everywhere, which surely makes them much less feasible and useful.

Yes, it uses more energy, but that needs to be something we resolve.

Fusion Home Energy Reactors! That's what we need! "

We definitely need Fusion reactors.

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By *ister_ee_1981Man
over a year ago

Sunniest Exeter...


"Absolutely flying cars. "

They are called helicopters, and frankly I'm glad we don't have "flying cars" people can't drive properly when there are only two dimensions to consider. Just image the carnage of adding a third dimension and, oh Yeah,if you crash, you are dead.

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By *ister_ee_1981Man
over a year ago

Sunniest Exeter...

But yes:

Fusion, pioneered in the 50's, still no where near ready

Cities in space / other worlds

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over a year ago


"Sustainable energy"
the power of the sun in my hands

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By *hoirCouple
over a year ago

Clacton/Bury St. Edmunds


"As a Judge Dredd reader Mega Cities also flying cars "

Seattle was built on top of the ruins of an old city. So we have at least one mega city...

A flying car was just given permission to proceed.

C

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