Very deep.

I remember reading this one when it was posted on the sight. There was a moment of shock when I realized it was actually true.

Me and  spotweld have had this conversation. We both try to notice that We're Living in the FUTURE and point it out around awesome, now-everyday things like GPS in your phone and 3D printing.

I had that similar revelation when I originally saw this and coincidentally another person posted a YouTube link to those AT&T "You Will" commercials!

It's boring because we don't have the flying cars yet!

If THIS is the future, then where is my flying car, hover board and robot slave? >A< Some future XP

Flying cars have been around since the late 50s. Technologically, they are viable. But economically, they have been a bust, every time someone tries to make a go of it. I'm sure there is a wikipedia page on the flying cars that now exist only as collector's pieces. Right up there with the convertible car-boat.

I WISH they come up with the flying cars in The Jetsons and hover boards in Back to the Future.

A very good point. I sorta realized it myself not too long ago when I saw how many people around me were wearing Bluetooth headsets, the same sort of devices with the blue lights you always see people wearing in sci-fi films.

Boring?

Naw.... To see one's world becoming like "Star Trek"!?

Welcome to the 24th century!

Does that mean that Duck Dodgers is only 50 years away?

Yep

Ddin't get enough dystopian? I beg to differ.

Nobody noticed the encroaching dystopia because it was too boring. Well, more boring than youtube clips of cats, at any rate.

I noticed... but i didn't want to believe...

and now people want some kind of far future/medieval themes where magic exists with science.

The tech is amazing its just most people have no idea what to do with it. Unlimited potential is a lot like looking in a room that stretches on forever... no grasp of space. If that makes any sense at all

Don't worry, I think this world is about to get a lot more dystopian.

"So true," I typed on a funny glowing box.

Really? I regularly grin at my roommates every couple of days, over some clever new use of mobile tech, and go "I love the future!" I just kinda assumed everybody else was too. :D

As my sister would say, "This is true."

little less then 2 years, I better get my hover board

Let's hope it doesn't end up like Phantasy Star II.

I figured out we were in the future after I saw this. http://youtu.be/8DW5yORt_B8

Can't argue with that.

The mythical "Far Future" will be when this device is how we control machines and create computer code.

I know it's not your fault, and you meant well, and I didn't have to click "Like," so I didn't have to log into YouTube. I found it wouldn't let the Firefox "Back" button return me to Gen's gallery, and I had no idea how long it would take me to get back where I was. I pictured the future with less cussing. I think that's one reason it's not more exciting. I love the future when it works as expected and when I know how to get it to do what I need. That's most of the time, but only because I don't try much. :/

I was JUST thinking about this yesterday! I'm sitting here looking at the Galaxy S2 I had in my hand, and it struck me that the little device I was holding is a kajillion times more powerful than the first computers and supercomputers. I can watch movies on it. I can stream Netflix if I so desire. I can chat with people across the globe. With the right app I can have a video conference. I have an app called Waze that shows me in real time other users that are on the road reporting road conditions, wrecks, hazards, traffic jams, etc. It functions as a GPS, I can surf the Internet anywhere I go, I can take pictures and send them almost instantly to friends and family via text or sharing on Facebook/Twitter. It's my alarm clock, stopwatch and kitchen timer, I can play any number of fun games on it, and listen to an infinite supply of music. It has magnetometers, a light meter, accelerometers, a very high quality digital camera built in, a ridiculously bright flashlight and, of course, I can make phone calls.

I am absolutely fascinated that I'm holding most of the future right there in the palm of my hand.

I know this feeling all too well.

Not two days ago, I mentioned how disappointed I am that no one has a Ziggy case (The blocky little PDA from 'Quantum Leap') for the iPhone/iPod Touch. I figure only then will the folks around me realize the bulk of the fictional future tech we used to dig is here today. = P

We are the Borg. We have been assimilated.

If it is we are long overdo for our personal Jetpacks

Oh, it's dystopian, it's just more Brave New World and less 1984. Actually a bit of both.

someone from the 80s just woke up from a coma: "OMG DE FUTURE IZ NOW!!!!" the rest of us: "go back to sleep until the work the bugs out of holograms, we've had this crap for years..."

I had to dodge a robot the other day. Our hospital has a automated unit that pretty much it's only job is to carry supplies.

What? No holodeck?

The future started showing up in the mid 90's. It just did it so slowly noone noticed.

very true! it DOES get boring too but my question is:
Where's the flying cars???

and the robots and lasers

that & Intergalatic spacerships

and hot blue alien girls

I remember someone writing a pastiche of one golden/pulp era writer's style (where the citizens of a future world chatted in amazement about the marvels around them). To show how unrealistic the style was, he had the same thing happen during everyday events in the '20s and '30s.

We live in a time of marvels, at least according to those who came before us.

Don't worry, they'll fix the lack of awesome in "Future 2.0". Rumors say they'll release it just as soon as they can get funding and suspend the laws of physics (the biggest problem seems to be that the platforms keep changing, and the code languages are always getting upgraded faster than the programers are able to fix bugs found in the alpha stage). There have also been security issues and lack of support from the parent company for a "sleeper hit" like this one. The fans just won't let die, however, so eventually it will see production (probably just in time to show your grandchildren).

Also: http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/09/07

I'm still awaiting the transparent screens as seen in the most recent Star Trek movie.


Somebody is lucky, has a new tablet.

The future is now indeed!

So the saying "Science-Fiction is now becoming Science-Fact" still would work in this day and age...Still wish there were Teleportation systems, but then too if that happened, wouldn't we all be the living dead?

I remember how cool it was, in the second Star Trek movie in the early 1980s, when Kirk put his hands under the faucet in his quarters and the water turned on automatically -- and how awesome it was ten years later, when I encountered a faucet at a New York State Thruway rest stop that did the same thing.

Years ago I read a wonderful SF story on this theme of how gently technology can ease us into the future almost without noticing. I just searched for information about it and was gratified to find out the author has posted it for everyone to enjoy:

"The Gentle Seduction" by Marc Stiegler
http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/Gent.....Seduction.html

Yeah. I chuckle whenever I read in old 1960's era science fiction magazines at how they predicted that in the early 21st Century we should have robot servants, anti-gravity cars and daily flights to the moon. I'm still waiting for my jet pack, or a reasonably safe, cheap, Japanese helicopter backpack.

BUT WHERE ARE THE LIGHTSABERS?!