only science fiction?

Question

technology won't change much from now. everyone thinks that all these cool thing are going to happen in the future but its not (like sending humans to Mars).

for example, lots old 60s movies showed that people will be living on Mars by the 21th century but it hasn't happened! neither is the things we think will happen in the future.

people think that in a few decades, we will have computers that have 1000 gig of RAM or hologram TVs but none of its going to happen. the thing that we expect for the future are impossible.

Answer 1

Dude, travel back in time to 1900 and tell the best scientists that by the year 2000 any human could travel to any place on the earth is a day or that we could see moving pictures in a box or that humans would routinely travel 40 miles in an hour to see huge moving pictures telling a story. It would be unbelievably to them. The reality is that by the year 2100 there won't be any humans as we know them left. We will have merged with our machines and live in a different world right here on this world and will probably have broadcasts our intellects out into the galaxy in every direction. Most of the people now living who can hold on another 30 years will catch the bus to immortality.

Answer 2

I think you are wrong. It is true that we are not living on Mars or in the Moon and that others things that were imagined in the 60's did to become real, but at the same time there were things that nobody imagined before and now are of normal use.
Nobody imagined in the 60's the revolution of the computers, internet or the modern communications networks, nobody imagined a world where almost all the people live with a telephone in their pocket. Nobody imagined the deep knowledge of the biochemics of the (biological) cells and human inner that we have.
The error in many predictions of the future is that they usually extrapolate current tendencies to the future, without thinking that there will be new discoveries in different fields which would probably revolutionate the society.

Answer 3

Just don't know in some ways things haven't changed much since the 60's in other ways they have changed radically. In the 60's we had records, 8 track tapes, could only watch movies at the theater. A computer with no more computing power than a modern hand held calculator filled up a room. Engineers used slide rules and drafting tables.

People watched only the local channels there was no cable or satellite television. No GPS guidance on your car, your plane or your ship. No weather satellites. Hurricanes could strike the coast with little or no warning. No cell phones, no internet.

It changes in unpredictable ways, and goes in spurts. George Washington couldn't send messages to his troops any faster than Alexander the Great 2000 years before him.

It is a very different world now than it was in the 1960's but we aren't the Jetson's yet.

Answer 4

Well each thing you mention has a different probability of happening. 1 terabyte of RAM is hardly that radical. Living on Mars may be a few more centuries. Maybe never.