Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

monkee67 t1_j25m0qu wrote

Sigh,..... only a few decades behind schedule

when you grow up watching epic sci-fi like 2001: a space odyssey and blade runner it all kind of makes you say....

this shit was already suppose to have happened, where the hell are our flying cars?!? they promised us flying cars!!!! God i hate this timeline.

at least we're not in the 12 monkey's or children of men timeline... wait . what

7

Apart_Shock t1_j27upf8 wrote

Reality is unfortunately not as kind to sci-fi visions. Not to mention some ideas turned out to be not so cool after some extensive thinking.

Flying cars for example seemed like the most awesome thing ever, but then you realize there would be a LOT more traffic fatalities and 9/11 revealed their potential use by terrorists. Which is most likely the reason why the flying cars we're actually seeing in production are autonomous.

1

monkee67 t1_j28f43u wrote

>Reality is unfortunately not as kind to sci-fi visions

and unfortunately the dystopians seem to nail it.

2