Visions of the Future/Now

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2018 sounds futuristic as hell to me, but it sure doesn't look like people imagined it. The movies always glamourize things that end up so damn boring in real life. Post your favorite visions of the future that became today. I am thinking primarily of movies like:

The Running Man depicting the year 2017.

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But the far future is ok too because who am I kidding this thread will be dead in a week:

Idiocracy depicting the year 2505.

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Remember batman beyond?
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What the fuck happens to architecture there

Also I have no fucking clue what the buildings in samurai jack are even trying to be
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I actually do wonder about how people born in 1980 would had seen or guessed 2020. The only thing I can consistently find is 'Manned Mars Mission' and not much more; and all that was waylaid by the Islamic Insurgency Crisis (makin' up names, I know, but 'war on terror' is meh). The peace dividend did happen, but not in a fast or revolutionary way, and America didn't reform itself into a European Social Democratic state. Europe hasn't united; but it hasn't fallen apart either, yet.

Maybe a shuttle replacement as the shuttle wasn't supposed to be what it was nor last as long as it did. Few saw smartphones but everyone was getting jacked to the net, with some cyberpunk games happening around this time. Those might had hit the bill more often than not, but we've thankfully avoided spamming katanas everywhere. I guess more cybernetics as well; but that's already happening, piecemeal.

No one had real visions for the post-Soviet world, either, it seems, other than 'Liberal Democracies take over! Yey!' or 'America number one!' or 'China number one!'.
 
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TerminallyChill said:
Name a store you can walk in and get a pair of sneakers like that, though. They're like flying cars. They exist, but they aren't common or mass produced.
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That doesn't matter. The point is that they exist already and people can buy them if they are really interested. They are made in limited numbers because consumers wouldn't buy them otherwise.

Have you noticed that we don't really have flying cars. Pretty much all the "flying cars" in existence are "drivable planes" instead. :lol:
 
Risewild said:
That doesn't matter. The point is that they exist already and people can buy them if they are really interested. They are made in limited numbers because consumers wouldn't buy them otherwise.

Have you noticed that we don't really have flying cars. Pretty much all the "flying cars" in existence are "drivable planes" instead. :lol:
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Well if we're going by that high of a standard, then those shoes are slow as shit to lace!
 
Risewild said:
That doesn't matter. The point is that they exist already and people can buy them if they are really interested. They are made in limited numbers because consumers wouldn't buy them otherwise.

Have you noticed that we don't really have flying cars. Pretty much all the "flying cars" in existence are "drivable planes" instead. :lol:
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I knew those shoes existed, but they are not exactly ubiquitous, that's why we're lacking in them.
 
TerminallyChill said:
Well if we're going by that high of a standard, then those shoes are slow as shit to lace!
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The example was self-lacing shoes, not super fast self-lacing shoes.

Also flying cars as imagined in the past are not cars with wings and all of that airplane junk. Flying cars imagined in the past are more like hovering cars:
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Hassknecht said:
I knew those shoes existed, but they are not exactly ubiquitous, that's why we're lacking in them.
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They still exist in the present though. And they appeared all the way back in 2011, so it is moot use them as an example of a product people thought could exist in the future and what doesn't exist now. :-P
They do exist, they are just not sold in stores because like I said before, consumers wouldn't buy them in large numbers to warrant them to be in stores. In this case, the future was here years ago, consumers are the ones not putting pressure for the product to be streamlined. :lmao:
 
Risewild said:
The example was self-lacing shoes, not super fast self-lacing shoes.
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The example was self-lacing shoes as they appeared in their fictional context.

The shoes and the car are analogous because while they both technically exist in the present, they are not treated the same way. In Back To The Future, consumers would buy those shoes and you could find them in the average store. They are however a rare collector's item in our world. And yes they lace way faster in the movie.
 
Risewild said:
They still exist in the present though. And they appeared all the way back in 2011, so it is moot use them as an example of a product people thought could exist in the future and what doesn't exist now. :-P
They do exist, they are just not sold in stores because like I said before, consumers wouldn't buy them in large numbers to warrant them to be in stores. In this case, the future was here years ago, consumers are the ones not putting pressure for the product to be streamlined. :lmao:
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As I said, I know they exist ("existed" was used because the sentence was in past tense). What is your point? I meant that these things are not everywhere, unlike how it is in the movies, and so we're lacking them ("lacking" not necessarily meaning a total lack, but just a partial lack). We also lack mullets and mustaches, even though they exist and people can easily grow them right now. But few do, and thus the world lacks that manly spark of the 80s.
 
TerminallyChill said:
The example was self-lacing shoes as they appeared in their fictional context.

The shoes and the car are analogous because while they both technically exist in the present, they are not treated the same way. In Back To The Future, consumers would buy those shoes and you could find them in the average store. They are however a rare collector's item in our world. And yes they lace way faster in the movie.
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No, the car is very different from the shoes. The shoes work the same way as in the movie (they have an electric motor that does the laces in for the user). We don't know if the real world product can't be adjusted to be faster for example. But the way it works is the same as in the movie.
Now the cars are very different, hover cars work and achieve flight in a totally different way a airplane car does, also all the air plane cars in real life require a landing and liftoff "strip" (so they land and lift horizontally) while in the futuristic products they just lift or land vertically, they also do not use wings. The way they work is through very different means and very different technology than the real world ones. While in the case of the sneakers, they work through the same hardware and achieve the results the same way, with the difference being that the real world ones are a bit slower (and again, we have no idea if we can't just speed them up).
Hassknecht said:
What is your point? I meant that these things are not everywhere, unlike how it is in the movies, and so we're lacking them ("lacking" not necessarily meaning a total lack, but just a partial lack). We also lack mullets and mustaches, even though they exist and people can easily grow them right now. But few do, and thus the world lacks that manly spark of the 80s.
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But how do we know that those shoes are everywhere in the future? IIRC only Marty ever wears them (we can even see plenty of extras in the background wearing normal shoes with flapping shoe-laces). And they were given to him by Doc Brown and we have no idea where he got those from. And they even came in a big custom box that doesn't look like it would be made for an average product in a store:
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