Naive optimism for the future!

[Otispunkmeyer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_ccAf82RQ8

Just watched GM's Design For Dreaming, 1956. Features the Frigidaire "Kitchen of Tomorrow" and a slew of future vehicles coutersy of GM, including a peak at the highway of tomorrow!

Absolutely fantastic, but sadly hasn't quite turned out that way!

Anyone got any more?

[prand]

There's a few things in Back to the Future 2. No portable fusion energy and no hoverboards dammit!

[Puggit]

prand said:

There's a few things in Back to the Future 2. No portable fusion energy and no hoverboards dammit!

Excuse me? http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/hoverboar...

[Hooli]

2001.

[StevieBee]

prand said:

No portable fusion energy

Ah yes...Mr Fusion - waste to energy.

Well, we do have them but as you say, scale and portability needs a bit of work!

[DervVW]

prand said:

There's a few things in Back to the Future 2. No portable fusion energy and no hoverboards dammit!

yeah the alternate timeline seems more likely

[StevieBee]

prand said:

No portable fusion energy

Ah yes...Mr Fusion - waste to energy.

Well, we do have them but as you say, scale and portability needs a bit of work!

[Otispunkmeyer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoCCO3GKqWY

Monsanto House of the Future....everything in plastic! And everything electrically powered by the looks of it!

They built this at TomorrowLand in Disney and apparently when they came to knock it down again they had to resort to chain saws to cut it up instead. Apparently traditional methods like the wrecking ball simply didn't work! It just bounced off!

[prand]

Puggit said:

Excuse me? http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/hoverboar...

I thought that would be the reaction! I still don't see a skateboard-like hoverboard you can use on a normal road or pavement, they still need a metallic floor or track to run on. Not quite the same thing, yet. Same with Fusion. Oh so nearly there, but tantalisingly a long way off too.