Today is the Future!

[Marc]

Just saw this tweeted

Did we ever get hover boards?

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[MWHCVT]

These come out at least once a year, so no idea if this is the genuine one this time be nice if it was a genuine screen capture for one

 

[dinners]

Got my hover board in the post this morning.

Grey import but a good saving.

I'll take some pictures of it first thing yesterday.

 

[Yv]

Apparently its actually october.... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...015-just-predictions-did-Future-II-right.html

 

[Marc]

Apparently its actually october.... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...015-just-predictions-did-Future-II-right.html

Ah, I did wonder why it was Feb 16th when he started out in October. At the the year's right.

 

[s162216]

It still gets me how when "2001: A Space Odyssey" came out, they had press releases and promotional material from "experts" promising that all the stuff in the film would be with us by the time it got to 2001.

Pity I don't see any Pan-Am space airliners, space hotels, moon bases or hibernation pods amongst other things in the film! Come to think of it though, other things like video calling, speech recognition, high power computers etc have come fruition so don't see why everything else won't come eventually.

 

[viv1969]

It still gets me how when "2001: A Space Odyssey" came out, they had press releases and promotional material from "experts" promising that all the stuff in the film would be with us by the time it got to 2001.

Pity I don't see any Pan-Am space airliners, space hotels, moon bases or hibernation pods amongst other things in the film! Come to think of it though, other things like video calling, speech recognition, high power computers etc have come fruition so don't see why everything else won't come eventually.

Pan Am spaceliners certainly won't

 

[dejongj]

Surely tomorrow is the future?

 

[big soft moose]

Did we ever get hover boards?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/142464853/hendo-hoverboards-worlds-first-real-hoverboard

some soucres say its a hoax, but tony hawk swears that its true - i guess we'll see in october

 

[Nod]

Surely tomorrow is the future?

Now is the past for now so now must have been the future now...

 

[dejongj]

:grin:

 

[ancient_mariner]

It still gets me how when "2001: A Space Odyssey" came out, they had press releases and promotional material from "experts" promising that all the stuff in the film would be with us by the time it got to 2001.

Pity I don't see any Pan-Am space airliners, space hotels, moon bases or hibernation pods amongst other things in the film! Come to think of it though, other things like video calling, speech recognition, high power computers etc have come fruition so don't see why everything else won't come eventually.

It's not that those things couldn't have happened, but there was no money for such things after the early 70s. Hey - we have tablet computers now, just like in the film.