Welcome to the WORLD OF TOMORROW!

[mrteapot]

Before you go ranting about the 21st century's lack of flying cars again, keep in mind these basic facts:

There's a serious proposal to turn Houston into a domed city

Robot maids clean people's houses

Children's toys can read your thoughts and respond

Space tourism is becoming regular enough that the space hotel is already accepting

Comments

[little__one]

The future is a damn cool place to live in. :)

[andres_s_p_b]

As I frequently say, "I love living in the future!" Though, that's usually because I've just looked up something on my iPhone, not because I just stepped out of my flying car (which would get terrible mileage and be horrifically environmentally irresponsible anyway).

[pghkitten]

I recall that the 2005 Neiman Marcus catalog was selling a Moller M400 flying car, but a look at Moller's website shows that they aren't accepting deposits on them anymore. But does that mean that we were closer to the future in the past than we are now...? Damn economic crisis.

Anyway, I won't believe we're in the future until I get my personal rocket pack and food in the form of pills. And my video phone. They may try to tell us a webcam is the same thing, but it's not true. :-P

[mrteapot]

Food in pill form is called "vitamin supplements" and available in most grocery stores.

For personal rocket packs, you should consult Popular Mechanics helpful buying guide to select which leading brand to choose from. Seriously, Popular Mechanics has a guide to choose between competing rocket packs. It's two years old, though, so no doubt there's a newer, better rocket pack model out by now.

"nearly all mobile phones supporting UMTS networks can work as videophones using their internal cameras" according to Wikipedia. That videophone was in your pocket the whole time (or if not, it's time to get a new cellphone).

[pghkitten]

I'm more inclined to agree with Lore Sjöberg here and say that Jelly Belly jellybeans (especially the Bertie Bott's varieties, which have gone far beyond the dessert genre, albeit sometimes in disturbing ways) are closer to the food pills as people in the past envisioned them.

[mrteapot]

Jelly Belly has all the flavor, but none of the nutrition.

But my daughter's gummy vitamins taste identical to standard gummy bears. There's no reason Jelly Belly couldn't start marketing vitamins that taste like exactly the meal that they are duplicating nutritionally.

[scholarinexile]

I knew we were living in the future the other day when, while looking for a fun article on light for my Intro to Natural Sciences class, I stumbled upon this article about the feasibility of a real-world cloaking device.