You've been gulled by Elon Musk's lies -- self-driving cars are not just around the corner.

Where is Jixuan?

My prediction, First its houses, If you notice houses are getting more advanced, computers, tv, appliances. Then its cars, then flying cars are going to take over. Then the next stage, flying cars that can go to mars and venus. That is the next stage of flying cars, and the final stage of this is flying houses.

In the future, society will digress and be like the 19th century and nation states will cease to be.

John and Julie Giljam, founders of Cool Amphibious Manufacturers International (CAMI), have asked themselves because they offer the Terra Wind RV. This camper lets you take a vacation on asphalt and the water. The drive on water RV already exist

yeah that is the #1 reason has never happened and won't happen for a long time, until the AI Overlord is so advanced that it can eliminate any human error. but then it still won't happen because #2 reason: it's a ridiculous waste of energy to make individual flying devices

Just imagine the smashed cars dropping on your house!

@@garryferrington811flying house🤦‍♂️

​@@garryferrington811I am building heavy-duty pyramids that can be folded out over your house to guide the car away from your house. Any buyers out there?

I like the way you guys think - let's do it! Finders keepers, on the debris and bodies.

Robots, cyborgs, people who were revived & cured after spending a century in cryonic suspension.....

"The future is not what it used to be." And it never was. 😊

@@tjmpls4905 Some people are just gadget lovers. This material is CATNIP to them.

And never will be!!!

@@AlanEmmons-qw6bg Not unless you believe in the multiverse & / or better yet, you've found a " tame wormhole " that leads to it.....

Which is why we love seeing these retro-future ideas.

Not quite. Clarke said “The Universe…”, not “The future…”

We won't have much of the future as we know it if Brandon continues to destroying the United States.

@@michaelschramm1064 And of course Clarke was a known pedophile living in Sri Lanka.

Real early monorail: Wuppertaler Schwebebahn since 1901!

Similar story. When I was a kid, I had a book published in 1959--shortly after Sputnik--on the future of space flight. Actually, it was a double-book: The future of space flight and the planets. I remember reading about how the US was developing a space plane that would launch atop a rocket and land like an airplane. (X-20 / DynaSoar). How we would build a space station in the 1970s (somewhat like what you see in the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey") and the first trips to the Moon would be sometime in the 1980s or so. I also enjoyed reading about how Venus might be a water-world or a desert. We just don't know because we can't see underneath the clouds (keep in mind, this was before any probes had ever been sent to any planet).

I remember The Weekly Reader around 1963 telling us we would have atomic powered cars, since oil would eventually run out.

I didn't have that book, but I remember seeing it.

@@petermerchant4439 edgar rice burroughs predicted computer photo by wire 1920

@@patrickmulroney9452 Fax machines go back to 1843, and there were a variety of prototypes throughout the 20th century, until they finally hit the mass market in the 1980s.

Me too. Refused to bother to get my DL in 1970 as a kid for the same reason ... luckily it didn't happen.

Funny how things happen. I think we are still going to be driving for a while and I suspect we are going to be pumping gas for a while too.

that and PEVs are killing public transit. the NYC transit ridership is down by a 3rd and Bostons is down by HALF in the last 3 years. you're right about communication. look at what we are doing right now. i can be in the middle of nowhere, call someone, send mail, send a message, video call them, and post on social media with a device that fits in my pocket.

yeah, but you need both. What good is communication, if you still have to wait one hour and pollution and crazy car traffic, just to go to the grocery store or get back home? You still have to mover around sometimes. good and products still need to be shipped around, by trucks. What if they could be shipped fast by air carriers without pollution? yes, I know people driver crazy and you would have car accidents in the sky. Modern technology brought a curse. SOCIAL MEDIA AND NO PRIVACY.

@@lukeyznaga7627 I'm guessing by your bad English, you're from Europe. The people who have to drive and hour or more to a grocery store are such a tiny percentage here its almost immeasurable. The amount of pollution and "crazy car traffic" those people deal with is zero because they live in the middle of nowhere. Where they are driving to only has a few thousand people living there. American's DO NOT BUY FOOD THE WAY EUROPEANS DO. We keep food on hand. We do not buy groceries every single day or every other day. Most of us buy once a week or once every other week. Those people who drive an hour or more? they buy a months worth of food at a time, or more. Ranchers who live in the middle of no where will lodge a massive order weeks in advance with their grocery store and come pick it up in a large truck with the food on pallets. its thousands of dollars worth at a time. the rest of us have freezers, refrigerators, and pantries, which in America is an entire room of the house dedicated to just stored food. go watch a video on American's shopping at Costco or Sams club. thats how American's buy their food.

@@lukeyznaga7627 Good point. We still need to improve transportation and product delivery. However, reducing the need for transportation and single-product delivery can and has been giving us great benefits.

@@MrSGL21 . That is the result of having to drive to do anything, the other result is food being loaded with preservatives, having little that was fresh.

hmm, smartphones as such are a phenomenon of the last 15 years or so only. Many foresaw and worked on computer based communication networks that would also be used by individual persons and consumers. But most of them did not envision the compactness and portability though.

Board games are so impractical in cars, whether a human is required to steer it or not. Every time you hit a pothole or bump, all of the sudden you've got hotels on Boardwalk and Park Place instead of Connecticut Ave🤣

@@GizzyDillespee A shake - up in the real estate market !! That was too easy.

I noticed that the men were still wearing business suits and the women skirts with tucked waists. They didn't imagine us in casual sweats and jeans.

@@lostmrsmoss they aren’t 100 pounds overweight also…

Or freezing in Cleveland.

And then you discover that Tesla’s have glass roofs… “Sunroofs” are pretty common options.

Some bubble canopied aircraft are real hotboxes without good airconditioning.

Oh I'm sure they envisioned some sort of variable polarizing effect that could be used to screen out too much sun. Or, at least, they SHOULD have envisioned that.

Don't forget Phoenix and Palm Springs!

They had a factory in Lorain OH where rubber and steel and so on would go in one end, and cars would come out the other end. An accurate prediction of the future, at that factory, would've shown robots assembling premade components that were imported from around the world, as the factory and local workforce kept shrinking. I think it was Lorain... may have been Elyria? It was right in that area. I didn't work at it, personally.

Sounds like Spaceship Earth.

Quote of the day.

"It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future." -YB So many great YB quotes.

@@stringlarson1247 I love that quote. I am going to search for a web site of his quotes.

@@factChecker01 There are many. There are a couple of books as well. I don't know of one source that would contain all of them or that it's even possible.

Sad, isn't it? But you're quite right. This must be a wonderful age for muggers; no one looks where they're going, no one looks around, they just stare at the little screen in their hand, zombie-like.

​@@user-fo5gk9ir7n So, what's that mugger determined to gain from that 'victim'? That same cell-phone, or the expensive shoes (or the full water bottle)? Less folk today carry cash.

Nine years ago, I used to live in Seattle. My friends say that it has changed a lot.

Because Democrats

[meme around 2015] 'Hey dude, where's my hoverboard?

The "Googie" and space age design were my favorites. A time of optimism and fascination with technology.

Interestingly enough there is a development with a cab that balances on a single train rail.

Instead, YT over loads us boring, mass-produced, 'dance' videos. On-line, it seems that money talks

I went to the NY World's Fair. I rode the monorail. What year was it? I think it was '63, though I could be off a bit.

We don't seem to use video phone much? I beg to differ. We've got Zoom, Teams, Meet, Face Time (is Skype still around?). I'm guessing business use is more prevalent.

@@andrewvelonis5940 The Seattle Worlds Fair had a Monorail that ran from down town to the fair, and it is still in operation. An interesting fact is that many people thought the Space Needle was part of the fair, but it was actually adjacent to the fair and was a private enterprise but it is emblematic of the 21st Century Exposition. The monorail terminal was within walking distance of the Space Needle..

@@shenmisheshou7002 The German town of Wuppertal has a suspended monorail that’s been in continuous service since 1901.

And Rosie the Robot at home handling the housework 😁

George used to come home every day with a sore "button pushing finger." I found myself occcaisionally coming home with sore fingertips after "pounding" on keyboard all day. I figured Hanna-Barbera almost got it right.

Futurism: the impractical age.

Big cars are back, when we desperately need to reduce carbon emissions.

/havng seen the look of Tesla designs, I agree

I have an affinity for the old Googie architecture, but much prefer modern car design over the '50s fascination of making cars resemble aircraft.

Actual future, humans will not work to live. Food is delivered to your door.

That is more a US problem, because US stuck in the past.

The 1950s visonaries didn't foresee traffic congestion, jobs and retail moving to the suburbs, dismantling of public transit, women's equality, the transistor shrinking computers, or plastic and fiberglass replacing hunking metal cars.

I imagined highspeed trains. 🚄

I feel like it was the collective feeling of disappointment and disenchantment with the future after the social struggles of the 60's didn't lead to the great change they strived towards. I think all the bright young minds just went to a dark place.

​@@98Zai: The social struggles of the 60s were driven by minds in dark places already. Every "major actor" tended to have some screwed up idea driving them, and they just happened to often be opponents to each other.

@@absalomdraconis Clearly, the Vietnam war started in the 50's. I just mean the collective spirit, or zeitgeist. A generation became disenchanted with the world.

Dystopian world views manifested in fiction long before the ‘70s. A hundred or more novels written by Shelley, Huxley, Wells, Stewart, Verne, Orwell and many, many others were published prior to the 1950s.

No debating any of these accurate description of American history in ‘50s and ‘60’s. So what’s after dystopia? What’s after technology?

yes, the 50s' futurists were obssessed with technology; not so much with social changes.

So spot on?

Monorails other than single-route passenger ones in cities, offer no practical advantages over conventional systems, to justify their capital cost or the difficulty of shifting from one line to another. Heavy freight would also create difficulties. Monorails are an answer to questions we aren't asking.

Similar to period movies with modern hair and makeup.

Who is it? Is it someone German?

@@dimik3855 Yes. They are in Germany. His Wife is the Best! Lucky Guy!

He is also good friends with "THE aNGRy aSTRoNoT

the Supersonic CybertruckPOS is on its way!

We live like the planet has infinite resources, but we're sucking it dry. Or, should I say, rich people are sucking it dry. Religious fanaticism is on the march - again. It is anti-science and pro control of every aspect of your life, espcially if you're a woman.

Hope is a rare commodity becoming more rare by the day. Every year the scientists issue their increasingly dire warnings about climate change and every year they are ignored. And every year it gets hotter. Mass climate migrations amidst ever worsening storms paint a bleak picture of the future.

@@donhoverson6348 I agree. Yet, hope and hopelessness are choices. Learning and ignorance are choices. Action and inaction are choices. Most people live on auto-pilot though and probably don't realize that. I think it would require a major cultural shift to regain mass hope and that would probably take a few generations in time. I see many potent obstacles to that cultural evolution, but I am not hopeless.

@@Mr22thou I think part of the problem is that human beings do not have a unified vision of the future. The end-times religious people just want to see the world burn thinking they will ascend to their deity in the flames (they are probably pretty stoked about the destructive potential of global warming). There are the corporatists who want to concentrate the wealth and resources of the planet into the hands of fewer and fewer people. There are the non-end times religionists who want to impose a theocracy on all people of the world. There are environmentalists who want everyone to go back to being subsistence farmers. And many many more, each with their own agenda. Each with their own conflicting vision. Personally I would like to see the Star Trek future where reason, compassion and environmental consciousness have achieved a balance, but to those who want to see Jesus riding his steed cutting off the heads of unbelievers with a fiery sword that would be hell. I think that dark times are coming. I don't know if there is light beyond but I do know that my eyes will never see it.

That came in the late 60s. In the 50s , computers were giant multi million dollar behemoths.

@@knerduno5942 but they already existed , so a visionair could have predicted that such sort of device could become smaller and cheaper and more advanced

@@Blackadder75 Yes. But I have never seen that in any prediction of the future from the 50s or 60s.

the 60s did predict home desktop computers, working, shopping.

They predicted massive supercomputers. They invented tiny supercomputers. They predicted flying jetcars. They invented Honda hybrid electric cars. They predicted plasma assault rifles. They invented plastic assault rifles.

Is that you, Klaus Schwab?

Ah but are you ready for ze bug puree.

Well beyond what was envisioned back then!

Even in 1985, "Back to the Future" didn't envision cell phones for 2015. Faxes and large screen TV were their communication.

"Could have mention"

And 3D Printing is a step towards the Replicator. Even 3D printing of food is being developed for space travel.

Yup. People are good in uprising things they know. But bad in changing approach to the world. As such they expect towers so high that they reach space, what we get are transgender people. It is why classic cyberpunk tend to focus on gang valance, weird drugs and evil corporations. And not actual essence of Cyberpunk what was transhumanism. Something what many SF still refuse to acknowledge.

There was heavy lobbying, but not directly, outright forbidding rail systems. Rather, it was done more subtly. One lobbied change was to prevent planning entire urban rail systems, and instead requiring them to be designed point-to-point following demand. This made them extremely expensive to build and continually chasing past demands that had changed by the time each small section was completed, which is the opposite of how it's done in other countries, where it's the urban rail system that drives demand for the land surrounding planned routes.

@@AlexanderGieg US has overall train problem, not strictly monorail problem. Monorails are dumb in principle, with exception when elevated tracks actually make sense.

The line painting idea works real well until it snows and you can't see the line any more. A buried wire of some sort would be better for places where it snows.

@@donhoverson6348 That’s actually what I was talking about. The early designs all used embedded metallic elements of some sort which could be detected regardless of external visibility. And they were embedded in the center of the lanes, not along the pavement markings, so that cheap detectors on vehicles could find them easily.

mr Clarke was a bit smarter than the average Joe

So, you do know.

Because he actually was scientist, when most modern SF is written by rejected hipsters.

I was 7 and then for the rest of my life they have done nothing but go around the Earth in low earth orbit and I still don't know if I will live to see people on the moon again. Mars is definitely out of the question.

There has been a lot of progress in cancer survival rates and the newly developed tools are likely to speed up progress tremendously.

As well as for muscular dystrophy. Remember Jerry Lewis 40 years ago???

@@factChecker01 Yes there has indeed been a lot of progress in cancer treatment, one example which comes to mind is Immunotherapy which looks to be very promising for the future of cancer treatment .

@patrickmccartney2418 My best guess would be because the artists were not aviators!

You would be dead anyway.

@FranckLarsen The tinted glass may have to go all the way up these days. If you don't want drones peeking in that is!

It would be a heating and cooling nightmare without their own nuclear power plant.

@@johnp139 Have the dome glass double as built-in solar panels?

Every Wal-mart I've been to lately offers it, and for a while during Covid a number of other places too. I've also been to a drive _through_ convenience store, though I honestly have _no idea_ why that place was designed that way.