It seems as if there's never been a topic about this, but the future is now! Look around us, friends- we can communicate across the globe, we have flying cars and spaceships. The technology of this age is astounding, and I am lucky to be so young; able to experience it all. I cannot wait until I can help to explore space, our final frontier.
My thanks go out to the giants upon whose shoulders our world and my education stand: Einstein, Hawking, Tesla, Hubble, Graham-Bell, Mendel, Darwin and Edison, to name a few.
To sum up my point; wow, we really are in the future!
-Penguin
In order to appreciate the future you have to have understood and lived through the past. No offense, but I am not quite sure that you're yet old enough to qualify to make that kind of a statement.
Seriously though, he does have a point, the future is here but not exactly as people would imagine it would be. They said by 2000 we would have flying cars and cities miles in the sky and interplanetary travel. Its not here yet but it is being worked on.
Again, this is where lack of experience comes in to play. You are correct in that we don't really have any of that stuff yet but I can tell you it will be a LONG time before we do. It's not that we don't have the technology - it's that nobody wants to assume the liability. If someone who spills hot coffee on themselves (granted there were some questionable circumstances, but still) can sue for millions then why would a company even begin to want to produce a flying car that would be driven by someone with almost no piloting experience?! Who would want to sell a jet pack that an 8 year old could get their hands on? Who would want to build cities high into the skies only to be brought down by an airplane or a bomb? (maybe even by one of those flying cars?!) You get my point here?
Back when these technologies were first envisioned, people held themselves accountable for their actions and companies didn't take advantage of that. Today for the consumers it's all about finger pointing and blaming everyone but themselves. For the companies it's all about covering their butts so that they don't have fingers pointed at them and so they don't get sued into bankruptcy. Personally it makes me sad to think of all of the technologies that we DON'T have because of this.
