Back in the day did you think the future would be better ?

[Mikey]

Back in the day --- the 70's for most of us, we all dreamed what our future might be like.

Not our personal future, but our future as a whole .....

Thinking about it now, I was so wrong and am very let down ......

We got no medical cures for anything decent .....

Cars still run on gas ... Gas is still expensive

The Soviet Union is gone, but how did that actually help us ?
We spend less on weapons ? ... If so, where is that surpluss cash ?

Nothing new in space missions

Yes today everybody has a cell phone and a computer, but does that really make us better ?

I'm very let down it's about the same as it was 35-40 years ago.

Sorry for the rant ...... Was just remembering how cool I thought the future would be and it turned out about the same as it was 40 years ago.

Hell, we even have our version of Vietnam.

[toys2cool]

i thought we'd have flying cars all over the place

[Cmonster]

I guess I'm not disappointed exactly, but it is different than I pictured it. VERY different.

SC

[Mikey]

I pictured everything to be white and most furniture made of white plastic ...

Yes, that did happen --- it's called Walmart lawn furniture

[babycyclops]

As a teenager during the 80's, I was obsessed with nuclear war, and kind of felt that the world could blow up at any second, so in way, the fact that we're still here means that the world has turned out better (for me)
On a very serious note, the Rwandan Genocide and Yugoslav Civil War made it depressingly clear that not much had changed, and the world was just as dangerous as it was during the Second World War.

[Bill]

I don't think I ever put much thought into what the future would be like as a kid, maybe I'm weird.
Cellphones, email and internet, flights without that crappy airline food; things have turned out pretty nicely. Sure we're still killing each other, but mostly on a personal level, not the inevitable nuclear war that was feared in the 70's and 80's.

[Zemo]

I don't think I ever put much thought into what the future would be like as a kid, maybe I'm weird.
Cellphones, email and internet, flights without that crappy airline food; things have turned out pretty nicely. Sure we're still killing each other, but mostly on a personal level, not the inevitable nuclear war that was feared in the 70's and 80's.

Same here, Never really thought about it then or now. Just the present year.

[toys2cool]

I pictured everything to be white and most furniture made of white plastic ...

Yes, that did happen --- it's called Walmart lawn furniture

lol

[Doc]

MOON BASES .....WHERE ARE THE FRIGGEN MOON BASES ?!?! Jet packs , robots ,flying cars. Arrrrggggggg

[johnnystorm]

Disappointed that one-piece foil unitards did not become official wear for all...

[Bill]

Disappointed that one-piece foil unitards did not become official wear for all...

[The Toyroom]

i thought we'd have flying cars all over the place

Me too...I'm mostly bummed about that and the lack of domed underwater citites...

[fallensaviour]

Where is my cyborg???

What about the eugenics war from the nineties that Kirk and Spock talked about back in 65...LOL

[UnderdogDJLSW]

And there was no Jupiter II built in 1987!

I remember a weekly reader I got in school back in 1976 after the first test flight of the space shuttle. They talked about how by 1980 there was going to be 100 shuttles in the fleet and multiple launches a week as they built the space station (which was to be completed by 1990).

[kryptosmaster]

I remember back in the early 70's we had a school assignment. We had to calculate our age in the year 2000 and draw a picture of what we thought things would be like.
I was going to be 35 and I drew myself flying around with a jet backpack!

WHERE ARE THE FLYING JET BACKPACKS??????

Rich