Flying cars were the ONLY detail the film got wrong?
How about:
Food re-hydrators
Self-drying clothes
Self-fitting clothing
Hovering skateboards
3-D projected film advertisements
Identification implants
Cybernetic enhancements
Robot trash collectors
Hovering robotic dog walkers
Handle-less entry doors
Cold fusion reactors small enough to power a personal vehicle
Oh, and time travel.
I'm sure I forgot a few things.
Yet somehow, printed news still exists.
They DID sort of predict smart glasses/google glass though. So there's that.
@2 I think they are confining there comments to issues directly related to urbanism (which may include your dog walkers). It's simply polite to ignore other sci-fi mis-calls. According to Star Trek, we're supposed to have had a eugenic world war between engineered super soldiers by now.
What really got left off of this list is "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"
This is not an amazing piece of prognostication. in the 1980's there was already a strong resurgence of city living and urban redevelopment.
Now, fewer cars--flying or not--would have been a more visionary future.
@7,
I did indeed know this, and find it equally interesting that the future cars still use primarily internal combustion engines instead of electric or hydrogen or hybrid or whatever.
Still, there IS a cold fusion reactor the size of a golf bag attached to the back of a car.
How about:
Food re-hydrators
Self-drying clothes
Self-fitting clothing
Hovering skateboards
3-D projected film advertisements
Identification implants
Cybernetic enhancements
Robot trash collectors
Hovering robotic dog walkers
Handle-less entry doors
Cold fusion reactors small enough to power a personal vehicle
Oh, and time travel.
I'm sure I forgot a few things.
Yet somehow, printed news still exists.
They DID sort of predict smart glasses/google glass though. So there's that.
What really got left off of this list is "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"
The reactor powered the flux capacitor, *not* the Delorean. Didn't you see Back to the Future III?
Now, fewer cars--flying or not--would have been a more visionary future.
I did indeed know this, and find it equally interesting that the future cars still use primarily internal combustion engines instead of electric or hydrogen or hybrid or whatever.
Still, there IS a cold fusion reactor the size of a golf bag attached to the back of a car.