Dude, Where's My (Flying) Car?

[MisterP]

Let's make a list of all the junk that sci-fi has promised us!
Domed cities! Mass conversions to evangelical atheism! Or libertarianism! Robots, monorails, uploading people onto computers, superhuman AIs!

[HEyHEY]

1. MEal pills

[humanbeing]

4. scifi's already here!

If anyone's read Robert Heinlein's 'The Puppet Masters' (1951), it depicts a future world with cars that drive, fly, and also go on the water.

Best of all, the story's about an alien invasion of little blobby critters that ride on a man's spine on his back, and control him. You can only tell an infected person by the telltale hump on his shoulders. How do they try to take over the world? By taking all the top government positions, of course.

In one scene, the secret agency that's fighting the aliens locks in a congressional session, and forces the president, and congressmen to all bare their backs, to prove there is no alien parasite riding them, controlling his or her actions...

[texas1928]

2. How about the sexual play thing ordering thingee from...

Logan's Run.

[guitar man]

14. isn't that

...what the internet's for? :evilgrin:

[texas1928]

15. No No in this one they materialize in your front room

And they are real and in the flesh. No self management is required with that one.

[Rick Myers]

3. Or...

The Orgasmatron in Sleeper...

Heck, even the stupid sex machine from Demolition Man.

But I REALLY want my flyin' car...

I'd settle for a flyin' monkey...


edit: sp

[AndyTiedye]

7. I thought the Orgasmatron was in Barbarella

though that model was obviously inferior, given that it went up in smoke
in mid-orgasm.

[AndyTiedye]

5. We Were Supposed to be Traveling to the Stars By Now Dammit!

[qnr]

6. Hell, I'd settle for common low Earth orbit flights

[MisterP]

12. like Gingrich's space honeymoon: as Franken put it:

"You struggle to get the fake fireplace started. She drifts away. You open a tube of space champagne. She drifts away. You struggle to unzip her spaceflight suit. She drifts away."

[Ready4Change]

8. Hotels in orbit.

Vacation trips to the moon.
A lifetime of leisure due to the benefits of automation.
Jetpacks.

[Sabriel]

9. When do we start eating people?

Gimme my Soylent Green! It's gotta be cheaper than what I'm paying now for groceries....

[baldguy]

10. You haven't been to McD's lately, have you?

[baldguy]

11. Where are my Soma tablets & Victory Gin?

[BiggJawn]

13. Yeah, where's the George Jetson life??

I got no Rosie, got no flying car, got no job where I push 2 buttons in 3 hours and call it a week...
No personal submarine, ho helicopter in my garage..Come to think of it, I don't have any gagrage, either....

No living wage, no promise of a secure, leisure-filled retirement, enjoying modern medicine's good health....

[MisterP]

16. instead of some Clarke-Asimov-Sagan pipe dream; we get Max Headroom

[BiggJawn]

17. You said it!

Masses shuffling around staring at the fucking TOOB, waiting for the latest Blip-Vert from Zik-Zak to send 'em out for a "Snak-Pak"...

I still think "MaXX Headroom" got killed off because some powerful people were uncomfortable with the premise.

Now, how to become a "Blank"? That's the question...

[Elginoid]

18. Flying cars- NO THANK YOU!

considering the intelligence and intellect level of most americans, and all the problems that many of them have with "two-dimensional" driving, adding a third dimension would be asking for trouble.