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   Linguist said, 10 months ago

   There are a lot of non-readers who’ve been unplugged from their brain plugs a long time ago. All they know is what the talking heads tell them.
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   dkendraf said, 10 months ago

   I want my flying car!
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   Varnes said, 10 months ago

   The future never looks all that much different from the recent past….but it’s there….seriously, my rocket pack was right here….OK, I’m in middle schools a lot. I get it. Where’d you hide it? The waste basket again? So lame…
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   artybee said, 10 months ago

   Just what we need… head-on collisions in three dimensions.
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   somebodyshort said, 10 months ago

   Oh great, 3D grid lock
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   pcolli said, 10 months ago

   @TheAwesomeBoiseStateBroncoFan

   3D traffic jams and pedestrians killed by falling vehicles. At least we’ll have the roads to walk in.
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   Personally, I’ll wait until distance becomes irrelevant.
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   Linguist said, 10 months ago

   Beam me up, Scotty.
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   Richard S. Russell said, 10 months ago

   I read a lot of SF, and you can find any kind of future you want there. Feminist paradise, misogynistic hellhole. Glorious expansion to the stars, apocalyptic retreat to racial senescence. Joyous communion with our cybernetic brethren, vile oppression by the unfeeling robotic overlords. Runaway hothouse, planetary glaciation. Red pill, blue pill.
    
   The one thing you WON’T find is any SF writers who claim they’re making predictions. They’re telling stories, that’s all.
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   simpsonfan2 said, 10 months ago

   I still want an amphibious flying car.
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    Randy_B said, 10 months ago

    And I, for one, welcome our new former robot slave overlords.
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    bluskies said, 10 months ago

    @Linguist

    If they’ve been unplugged, how can they hear what the talking heads are saying to them?
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    subicpingjockey said, 10 months ago

    There is already a flying car, they are just ironing out the bugs.
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    gmartin997 said, 10 months ago

    You’re behind the times, Jeffery. Gene Roddenberry and his writers predicted all of that 50 years ago. You’re right about one thing though: even he wasn’t crazy enough to predict ffying cars. That was Hanna-Barbera.
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    JohnnyDiego said, 10 months ago

    When we first moved into our house in 1981 my daughter was 4 years old. We have a large double-paned picture window in the front room.

    One night the headlights of an oncoming car diffused on those double panes and appeared to my daughter to be flying. She jumped up and down and hollered, “A flying car! A flying car!”

    She is now 35 and we all know that we have had visual proof of the existence of flying cars.

    (At about the same time she also swore that our neighbor, Mr. Case, was a monkey.)
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    pcolli said, 10 months ago

    @JohnnyDiego

    We’ve got a neighbour like that. Poor woman.
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