We Should Be Living in a Sci Fi World
Did anyone else get told as a kid that we would have flying cars by the year 2000? Okay, maybe that’s an exaggeration, but I definitely remember reading from a “scientific” source some time in the 80’s about cars that would do all kinds of cool things. This includes–and I swear I remember reading this–bumpers that were going to be installed on the sides of highways that would “pilot” drivers to their destination. Am I the only one who read that article?
Okay, here’s one that’s a little more substantial. For those of you who don’t feel like clicking, researchers at Duke University have figured out how to build an invisibility cloak. Sci fi brethren everywhere, rejoice! WHY ISN’T IT IN OUR HANDS? (Okay, so it’s not truly an invisibility cloak, but the idea is there, and who knows what they’re NOT showing us . . .)
At my sister’s wedding recently, I ran into an old friend who was telling me about her sister. “She works for a company that contracts with the Defense Department,” my friend told me. “Sometimes we’ll joke with her about when the giant transforming robots are coming. She’ll just give us a look.” The implication, of course, is that THESE THINGS ARE BEING DEVELOPED AND MAY WELL ALREADY EXIST.
Again, I ask, why don’t we have them? Why do we have hybrid cars and GPS’s instead of flying cars and transforming robots? Why do I have to live in a (relatively) boring world, where I have to turn on a six-year-old computer to fly around a city?
Somebody get me the Department of Defense of the phone . . .
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