A lot of what was a long way off is suddenly here
Drone Delivery
Driverless Cars
Commercial Space Travel
Artificial Intelligence
Quantum Computing
Humanoid Robots seems to be lagging they haven't integrated fully with mankind yet
And more
That's all very nice but where the lightsabres we were promised?
Garlic bread!
It’s the future, I’ve tasted it.
What about the undersea rail network that was supposed to get us from New York to Paris in ninety minutes?
Still waiting on the replicators
John Connor enters the chat…
What about the self drying jackets from Back to the future?
And the hoverboards too.
Anyone guess the big one
Will probably never happen
Although maybe in a small way thanks to Einstein
When's Skynet due to take over?
August 29th 1997.
Or even to Dublin airport? (It doesn't have to be undersea.😉 )
and the more....
Climate catastrophe
Ecological breakdown
Global Pandemics
Wars over dwindling resources
Mass human migrations
Most of those on your list aren't really here tbh. And have been on the cards for 20 plus years.
The future is always coming but never arrives.
Get over yourselves. The future hasnt arrived until you can beam from one place to another star trek style.
Great thread and I wholeheartedly agree.
My moment was getting the first Covid vaccine. Army trucks & Garda vans parked up, security in masks directing people as I drove through the indoor carpark in complete silence in an electric car before talking to my wife face to face on a screen.
I'm still waiting for a cure for cat allergy. I want to see the little s*ts faces when they realise they can't make me sick any more.
Hehe, can you imagine the fun that the Russkies would have with that?
What you fail to take into account is that cats are advancing their own technology at a faster pace than we are.
Dystopian or whah!
Don't forget large scale environmental/ecological destruction, real global warming and Waterworld...
I think eventually there will an elite who don't reside on this planet but exercise control for their needs
@OP Well done. You just picked 5 things that are no way widely availible yet. No drones delivery where I live unless you calling the drivers of Amazon vans or DHL vans etc drones.
No AI either or self driving cars or quantum computing or definitely no spaceport in Dublin yet that I know of because it certainly would not be in the county I live in.
I just want transporters to be a thing so the people who want to drive can drive and does who do not can just beam to work or play. Not going to happen tomorrow do or maybe not even in the next 50 or 100 years. So we will never see that or a lot if the other things you mention either unfortunately. Sorry to put a dampener on your thread but Humans are slow to change.
Jesus.
Buzzkill D'arcy is on boards.ie.
It took me far longer than it should have to sort out 'does' and 'do' and make sense of the paragraph.
The 3D printers are heading in that direction a bit. Kinda.
AI is here and it’s shaking its booty. I use it in work (legal tech), it’s integrated into platforms I use, and I’m seeing it take over from real life hoooomans. And I’m not talking about asking Chat GPT to lend a land writing an email - although that can be handy too.
I’m amazed, excited, and a little bit overwhelmed at how quickly things are changing in my tech sphere in the last years. It’s legitimately life changing (for the better for me so far), and I’m only seeing the changes come thicker and faster.
There wouldn't much happening with people like u around anyhow
Artificial intelligence will never defeat human stupidity.
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