[Technology] Are we already living in the future as we imagined it?

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Eeyore

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Apr 5, 2014
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Are we already living in the future as we imagined it?​

I see no monorail to the Amex yet, so it is a no from me.
Yes. As far as I'm concerned, we are still in the 80s.

The ground was never built at Shepcote Valley and the monorail to it was never built. We have a long way to go.
 














HeaviestTed

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Mar 23, 2023
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We are.

When I was a kid, I thought being able to see people when you phoned them would be so good.

It's not.

*edit* Maybe I should mention that at the time, we had A and B buttons in phone boxes.
In your wildest dreams did you think that people would see each other on their phones and use a loudspeaker in public?
 




Albion my Albion

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I heard it poops batteries and Musk has his DOGE uni-age wunderkinds trying to figure out how the robot K9 gets so much power in it's batteries. Trump thinks it's the Energizer Bunny that figured it out.

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Yes we see these robotic marvels and all sorts of innovative stuff, but how much of it ever comes into daily use and affects our lives ?
The things that do happen, like AI , seem to creep up unexpectedly. We are terrible at predicting the future.
I was actually thinking about this yesterday. Can you name one thing now compared to 15 years ago which is tangibly different? Even the iPhone which is released every year is no different now to that 10 years ago.
 


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