Technologies of the Future We Want Now
#14 Flying Cars
From watching shows like The Jetsons and Futurama, if you're an 90's kid, you'd think the post Y2K era would bring about huge changes to mundane life. It wouldn't be a car anymore if you never drove it and just flew it. How many times have you been stuck in traffic and just wish your car could vertical take off? It'd only be cool if you had one.
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Flying Cars
From watching shows like The Jetsons and Futurama, if you're an 90's kid, you'd think the post Y2K era would bring about huge changes to mundane life. It wouldn't be a car anymore if you never drove it and just flew it. How many times have you been stuck in traffic and just wish your car could vertical take off? It'd only be cool if you had one.
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Holograms
It's not like they don't have holograms, but you'd think it'd be an everyday utilized technology by now. Hatsune Miku and Tupac singing at concerts are about the closest thing they have now. Imagine just having a hologram of you lining up in a long line while you shopped at the store. Come check out time you're paged by the hologram and you come up to pay!
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Robot servants
You hear of these in Japan but do they really have them? Get them out already! Again another "The Jetsons" reminder that we're not in the future just yet. Almost...? Roomba
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Teleportation device
We dream that one day we can travel great distances within a blink. Thanks to "Star Trek" and "Star Gate"we wish we could be "beamed up". Imagine internet shopping teleporting your products instantly! Gotta eat the nasty cooking of a friend or family, teleport that into your stomach! Too lazy to chew? Teleport that food!
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Space Colonies
We all thought from the many expeditions by NASA to space that outer space living or at least tourist ventures there would be possible. We imagine lunar colonies and the International Space Station is giving us hope for that. Thanks "Total Recall". Why aren't we out there yet?
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Mechanized battle suits
Countless tv shows draw upon this as fantasy material and who could disagree that the future of war shouldn't be badass? Just to name a few shows and movies that bring this up...."Gundam", "Power Rangers", "Voltron", "Mech Warrior" and countless other iterations
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Food replicator
What's a future without food? Imagine being rid of our human need for food. We'd eat, but we'd never eat for sustainable. Every meal we'd eat for pleasure. Food tailored to our every whim, health traits, palette, and culture wherever, whenever. The lack of struggle for food will make us post-human and leave us with more time for intellectual development.
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Nanobots
What would a future be without nanobots? Nanites that would act according to our desires manipulating everything down to the molecular make up of any structure. Self-replicating machines that repair, destroy, combine, construct, and remove anything and everything at a molecular level. It could remove our species of disease, filth, biological functions (waste management) and much more. Imagine never having to cut your hair again because nanites could chew off the tips of your hair when they reached a certain length. Have nanites assist your body in repairing your wounds and removing scar tissue, tumors, bacterial infections, and parasites. Technologically we could construct any piece of material from the molecular structure up. The human condition could be a thing of the past, with material wealth and bodily health we would be post-human in our existences.
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Robitic limb enhancements
Remember "Mortal Kombat's" Jax? That guy that got robot arms because his name implied he jacked it too much? Or Robocop, that guy that had his whole body repaired by machines? We have prosthetic but why not ones that increase our killing power or at least utility?
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Jetpacks, hover shoes, hover board
Tired of walking? Fly! Ever since that "Back to the Future" movie with the "Mattel" hover board I've been wanting one. I'd imagine that I'd never walk again. Of course that's not a thing to consider anymore. The closest thing we come to flying off the ground is with a couple hundred dollars and a trip to the airport. Flying is a possibility today but we wish we could do it alone and with the wind in our hair. Maybe then we could try some quidditch or many other variations of the boring grounded sports we have today. Imagine hover board basketball, baseball...
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Underwater colonies
We have all heard the craze of underwater hotels. Why not start marketing parts of the sea as real estate by now. Space cannot be the final frontier if we have not even explored the depths of this planet.
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Robot toys
We thought the future was here when Sony released the robotic companion Aibo. Honda followed with ASIMO. But none of that ever became more than a fad. Though toys like Furby and Aibo were consumer products, this category of robotic companions did not create a market. We could've all had an Aibo for Aibo dog fights.
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Laser tools
Why are laser tools only for precision surgery. Imagine laser can openers or laser scissors. Never have the wipe the blades off again when you can cut food with a laser knife.
