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The year 2012 was supposed to bring us: flying cars, jet packs, moon colonies, fusion, Robots, and food pills. All we got was: The Internet, Cell Phones, The Burj Kalifa, A Mars Rover landing, a african american president, the International Space Station, and so on.
Who here finds the year 2012 to be a very disappointing year to all those people who remember the 60s or 50s?
I didn't imagine that when I first flew on 737s and 747s in the early 1970s that 40 years later those planes would still be in use, considering what people were flying in 40 years before that.
I didn't imagine that when I first flew on 737s and 747s in the early 1970s that 40 years later those planes would still be in use, considering what people were flying in 40 years before that.
However, these 737s and 747s that we are still using are MUCH safer than in the early 1970's. Just because a form of technology is not completely new, does not mean it has not been greatly improved.
However, these 737s and 747s that we are still using are MUCH safer than in the early 1970's. Just because a form of technology is not completely new, does not mean it has not been greatly improved.
Actually I liked the 747s from the 70s much better. On the one I was on the upstairs was a piano bar (on a domestic flight no less) whereas now it's just first class seats.
I'm sure the odds of being killed in an air accident back in the 70s was a fraction what it is driving a car now.
Actually I liked the 747s from the 70s much better. On the one I was on the upstairs was a piano bar (on a domestic flight no less) whereas now it's just first class seats.
I'm sure the odds of being killed in an air accident back in the 70s was a fraction what it is driving a car now.
I was comparing airplanes of 1972 to airplanes of 2012.
Secondly, the automobile accident rate of 1972 was much higher than in 2012.
The year 2012 was supposed to bring us: flying cars, jet packs, moon colonies, fusion, Robots, and food pills. All we got was: The Internet, Cell Phones, The Burj Kalifa, A Mars Rover landing, a african american president, the International Space Station, and so on.
Who here finds the year 2012 to be a very disappointing year to all those people who remember the 60s or 50s?
And robots were supposed to be doing all of our work, so we could sit home and enjoy the good life.
And robots were supposed to be doing all of our work, so we could sit home and enjoy the good life.
It's funny that old school futurists never stopped to realize automation would really result in people with no jobs and no money to spend... not exactly the good life.
Nor that 3rd world and illegal immigrant labor would be more than a little cheaper than building dexterous semi-intelligent robots capable of doing such work.
For all our technological advances we really haven't come far at all, have we?
The year 2012 was supposed to bring us: flying cars, jet packs, moon colonies, fusion, Robots, and food pills. All we got was: The Internet, Cell Phones, The Burj Kalifa, A Mars Rover landing, a african american president, the International Space Station, and so on.
Who here finds the year 2012 to be a very disappointing year to all those people who remember the 60s or 50s?
Flying cars are a no go because of safety, privacy and noise issues. Snowmobiles and ATVs are bad enough. Jet packs were never really considered to be practical. I did somewhat expect a lagrange point station and moon base. Rossums universal robots are a little ways down the road, but we'll get there.
Where we haven't made progress is sociology, government, and interpersonal issues. Oh yeah, alternative power to oil and coal based power has been disappointing. Cheap energy and real education could make this a dynamic world. What concerns me most is the possibility of a uniculture due to globalization.
I'd say the whole 21st Century is pretty much of a dud, even viewed by 1999 expectations, but then, I don't live in China, where I think most people are pretty happy about it, and maybe the rest of the developing world, too. I bet most Iraqis would like to have 1999 back.
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