Working Daze by John Zakour and Scott Roberts for March 28, 2014

Yes, and someone lost their money for a Zagnut bar. Get over it. I am still hoping to see Rosie the robot and flying cars that pack into suitcase size for parking.

Great, now I feel old for remember that show so well.

And there should have been Pan Am space ships docking at Hilton space stations in 2001.

Let’s hope that version of the future never happens…even if that means no Gina Torres in a leather mini-skirt.

At least the Moon is still there

Everyone else wants me to make them a copy of my personal flying jet pack. They are inconvenient because there is no refueling infrastructure for them. I have to hide my personal home nuclear power plant.

. . . and nuclear power was going to be too cheap to meter.

Alas, even more proof that we are behind in the times…

Let’s just all agree that THIS IS NOT the Future We WERE PROMISED when we were kids!

Nobody can promise you any type of future. There is much that has come true, though. Some sooner than others, and some will probably never come to pass. But we still have video chat on pocket-sized devices, cars that help avoid collisions, and 80" televisions that are only 2" thick or less. Flying jet packs have been around for awhile, but they’re quite heavy. They will last about 30 minutes before refueling but who wants to be suspended on a jet pack for that long?

So, I’m guessing that the bugs and animals have evolved enough to ride trains and bikes? :-)

http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/30/i-believe-i-can-fly-with-this-soon-to-be-commercially-available-jet-pack/

things like those depicted in madmax should have happened also, be glad it didn’t

All very correct. The Robinsons in the Jupiter II launched on October 16, 1997, but I somehow must have missed it (actually, that was almost exactly the launch date of the Cassini probe to Saturn!). We have to wait until April 5, 2063 for “First Contact”, to see if that one is (was / will be / ?) accurate. I hope to see that one – all I have to do is live to 110 years old.

On the plus side, I’ve lost count of how many dates of nuclear holocausts in fiction have come and gone. The first time I remember a specific year being mentioned was in the 1960 movie “The Time Machine”, which had the mushrooms sprouting in 1966.

Hey, everything I write is serious… :)

If Aristotle and everything he represented (as opposed to Plato) had not been suppressed for a thousand years, the Dark Ages would not have happened and we’d have had space colonies for centuries by now. But probably not jetpacks.

{I occasionally drive by the Princeton Plasma Labs where they have been promising thermonuclear power for about two generations now.)

Personal flying jet pack? I never considered it science fiction when the Professor on Gilligan’s Island made synthetic fuel for the jet pack after it ran out of its original fuel. We are progressing to autonomous cars.