So, hello, there, future.

[tacticslion]

We now live in the future. How do I make this claim? Because, in addition to microwaves, smart phones, and robot vacuum cleaners, and of course, the personal computer, I now have (much like all my advanced tech, it was a gift), and am now using, an I-Pad 2! Truly, we now live in the future. Now, there are a few less-than-optimal elements to each of these devices mentioned... but guys: really, let's be honest, here. Outside of space travel and teleportation (and really, who cares about those*) we're basically doing things that, only a generation ago (less, really) were the stuff of fancy. We have servant robots in our house. We have instant world-wide communication, free of any sort of physical connections. And we have data-pads. Also, near-instant food preparation.

Discuss.

*me. I want teleportation and space travel!
Note: One day I shall find some way to use the alternate title, "That's probably why there are no swap tags" and it be valid. Someday. Unless I don't.

[The Sevenshot Kid]

It's not the future until I have a jetpack. Until then, I am living with perpetual disappointment.

[Dracorion]

Did we invent time travel?

No?

Then we are not in the future.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

I also don't see hoverboards or flying cars anywhere. We still have much to accomplish.

[Hatake Kakashi]

Anything Apple is a step back. Or six.

[mauve]

AND WHERE THE BLEEP IS MY CHOZO VARIA SUIT?! It's not the future if I can't hop on my spaceship and fight futuristic space robots whenever I want instead of going to work.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

It's not the future until I have a jetpack. Until then, I am living with perpetual disappointment.

How does a jetpack not just burn your legs off?

[The Sevenshot Kid]

How does a jetpack not just burn your legs off?

Not my job to figure it out. That's for the science men to do.

[Kerensky287]

How does a jetpack not just burn your legs off?

Simple. You just have to domesticate fire.

[Fenris]

How does a jetpack not just burn your legs off?

Get one that doesn't combust?

[akaSM]

How does a jetpack not just burn your legs off?

My fire resistant robo legs aren't afraid of fire

[POS Industries]

You know what I can't believe we're still doing? Walking.

Like, basically everything was supposed to either hover, be on treadmills, or a combination of the two. THE JETSONS FUCKING LIED TO US, PEOPLE.

[Fifthfiend]

You know what I can't believe we're still doing? Walking.

The type-II diabetes rates say otherwise.

[TDK]

It's not the future until I have a jetpack. Until then, I am living with perpetual disappointment.

QFFT

[Marc v4.0]

You're gonna feel really stupid when the Ipad 3 comes out in 3 months

[tacticslion]

You're gonna feel really stupid when the Ipad 3 comes out in 3 months
Considering I didn't ask for, expect, or in any other way seek this... Not so much. I'll just feel really happy. Still. Hee.

Also, Hataki, apple is actually kind of awesome.

To others... You make fair points. I counter with: Steam (either the substance or the company, take your pick, making the logical arguments you like from them).

[Marc v4.0]

Considering I didn't ask for, expect, or in any other way seek this... Not so much. I'll just feel really happy. Still. Hee.

It is going to do that thing you really want it to do, without a doubt.

No, Apple is pretty terrible, taking the extremely silly "release it as-is and just patch later" and replacing it with "release it as-is and just make a barely improved model later for the same price."

[Flarecobra]

You know, "Sci Fi Science" showed that it IS possable to develop stuff like lightsabres and Transformers using materials being developed or even avalable now...

[The SSB Intern]

It's not the future until I have a jetpack. Until then, I am living with perpetual disappointment.

*Ahem* (http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/5071233/Giant-leap-for-Kiwi-jetpack)

[The Sevenshot Kid]

*Ahem* (http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/5071233/Giant-leap-for-Kiwi-jetpack)

Allow me to reiterate:

It's not the future until I have a jetpack.

[rpgdemon]

You know, "Sci Fi Science" showed that it IS possable to develop stuff like lightsabres and Transformers using materials being developed or even avalable now...

I don't see how lightsabers, with physical properties, would be possible.

[Aldurin]

We still have currency, and we can't even be nice enough to a universal currency (which is still unacceptable) but we have a shitload of different metal and/or paper variations with ever-changing values.

And there's no practical real estate available beyond our atmosphere right now, which is totally bullshit.

[Fifthfiend]

*Ahem* (http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/5071233/Giant-leap-for-Kiwi-jetpack)

I enjoyed this:
However, when it was shown bouncing just off the ground at the Oshkosh Air Show three years ago it was ridiculed by industry professionals.

These Wright Brothers this Glenn Martin is barely able to get off the ground! His ridiculous contraption will never be able to achieve true flight!

[Professor Smarmiarty]

I don't see how lightsabers, with physical properties, would be possible.

They're not.

[The SSB Intern]

What I wouldn't give to see their reactions to it actually working. There had to have been many a mustache angrily tugged in that crowd.

[Overcast]

My jetpack propulses me with my perpetual energy machine and high power composite motors. The hard part was the materials for the motors honestly, needed materials light enough it didn't break my back every time I tried to lift it. Had to go through three backs before we got that one right. My lightsaber is a bust though, it is just a fairly bright laser placed next to a monofilament blade, and I have to reproduce the filaments whenever I cut something because I haven't found something that can be that thin and not break after a period of use. Been trying to make it repair itself to fill the illusion.

[Ecks]

You know, "Sci Fi Science" showed that it IS possable to develop stuff like lightsabres and Transformers using materials being developed or even avalable now...

Flare, lightsaber is an American English word, invented by an American. So please use the American English spelling.

Also, it is technically impossible to make a lightsaber without a giant BUILDING full of equipment to power it and sustain it.

Transformers though? Totally possible.

[Lady Fire Dove]

As someone wise once said (or maybe it was on the show Gargoyles), "any technology, sufficiently advanced, will appear to others as magic" ... Or something like that. Anyway, my point is that, all technology we don't currently have in regular use (light sabers, jet packs, etc.) will seem impossible to us ... Until we actually figure out how to make it, then make it. :D

[Professor Smarmiarty]

But you see the difference between say a jetpack and a lightsaber is that a jetpack or even a flying car is possible, we know that it is, the basic theory is sound it's just engineering that is the problem.
With the lightsaber it breaks quite a few fundamental laws of physics. So while it maybe is possible we would need some major scientific revolutions before that happens because currentely it does seem impossble.

[Archbio]

I don't see how lightsabers, with physical properties, would be possible.

They are, if you have a fluorescent tube and no qualms about false advertising. (http://www.imageshare.web.id/images/vn3gmvzneaal062xrdpu.jpg)

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

Flare, lightsaber is an American English word, invented by an American. So please use the American English spelling.

Also, it is technically impossible to make a lightsaber without a giant BUILDING full of equipment to power it and sustain it.

Transformers though? Totally possible.

Sticking light on the front of a word doesn't make it a new word.