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Paul Bassett DaviesI must confess that when I was younger I expected the future to have more robot butlers and jetpacks, and less plague and fascism, but here we are.
Helene Hages@thewritertype
So did I and I am very disappointed about today 😖🫣
John Caveney woke is me🛠️@thewritertype I didn’t expect, I just hoped. But here we are. 😏
MerrillC@thewritertype The jetsons minus tfg and Bolsonaro. The list is long but you get the point.
StephenC@thewritertype the robots are hidden away in the factories. But in #Thailabd I have encountered #robot ckeaners at the airport (also found in many homes) and a restaurant chain using robots for service
MistressStarr 🇵🇷🏳️🌈@thewritertype Ugh trust me I wish I had more of a Jetsons life style than this current political mess 😂
Nathan Lowell (he/him) 📎
Winter_breaks@thewritertype I wanted a space elevator
Limbic Noodle@thewritertype I expected it to have all those things. I was an autistic kid.
Swede’s Photographs@thewritertype I haven’t purchased a robot vacuum yet. But I’m thinking about it.
Martha Howell@thewritertype I was that fool who thought we cared about each other. Covid rubbed my nose in that.
Rob@thewritertype You know you've now planted the seed for Robot Hitler.
Estevão Cavalcanti
Rorzer@thewritertype you mark my words, in "The Future" we will have all had our own personal hovercraft. Unfortunately, instead of "The Future", we ended up with the future.
@rorzer The future isn’t what it used to be.
RadicalWoman111@thewritertype
Yeah, same. And I want my self-cleaning house and kitchen that preps and cooks my meals, damn it. 🧐
Yeah, same. And I want my self-cleaning house and kitchen that preps and cooks my meals, damn it. 🧐
Tomtit & Baobab@thewritertype Totally true. But there is this. It's something: https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-dental-engineering-shapeshifting-microrobots-can-brush-and-floss-teeth
Shapeshifting microrobots can brush and floss teeth | Penn Today
In a proof-of-concept study, researchers from the School of Dental Medicine and School of Engineering and Applied Science shows that a hands-free system could effectively automate the treatment and removal of tooth-decay-causing bacteria and dental plaque.
Raptor@thewritertype well, we did get the robot cleaners in some stores. what I WASN'T expecting was that every time i saw one, i'd have an overpowering urge to smash it.
Paul McGrane@thewritertype well you can ask your robot butler how is the plague and fascism outside and it'll tell you. I have a device right over there on the table!
ZZ Bottom
Mikko Alasaarela@thewritertype The thing is, with ChatGPT we do have an AI butler and we also have more jetpacks. But we unfortunately don't have less fascism, which shows the sorry state of the humanity.
Gerard Cunningham ✒️@thewritertype The Jetsons generation are disappointed. The Mad Max generation are unsurprised.
@faduda The future isn’t what it used to be.
Matthew Gracie@thewritertype As @hacks4pancakes once pointed out, somehow we managed to build only the bad parts of a cyberpunk dystopia and none of the cool stuff.
artisanrox@thewritertype Light sabers and holodecks could have been at least a consolation prize from all this mess, but nooooo.
It's Just Jenn 🏳️⚧️@thewritertype No jetpacks, no hoverboards, just dystopia. What a ripoff!
bluewave is coming@thewritertype Did you grow up watching those news reels of tomorrow or something #Bluewave
kira :3@thewritertype i'm still miffed about the plague(s), like what the fuck
Marina Ormes 
@thewritertype True, except when you think about it the Jetsons seemed to live in some sort of post-apocalyptic world where they couldn't live on the surface of the earth. Maybe we should be thankful? 🤷🏽♀️
Soozcat@marinao @thewritertype At least it was a cheery, World's Fair-esque post-apocalyptic world.
Phil Burg (he/him)@thewritertype For those of us who grew up playing Car Wars, this is pretty much exactly how the future was supposed to look.
Just waiting for autoduelling to be televised and we're there.
Just waiting for autoduelling to be televised and we're there.
Jorge 🦣@thewritertype we are the robots
Kelley Graham@thewritertype yeah, where’s my flying car. Oh, it’s pretty much here.
crabbynabbybites@thewritertype
I thought I'd live next door to the Jetsons. 🙂
I thought I'd live next door to the Jetsons. 🙂
@crabbynabbybites You do, but they’re nazis now.
Jackie@thewritertype Silly me, I thought we'd be like the Jetson's rather than facing climate doom.
TonyK@thewritertype I thought there'd be a nuclear holocaust before 2000. So doing well, relatively speaking, in that regard.
@Cranky_Tony Yes, let’s look on the bright side.
Gatita @thewritertype I pine for the Jetsons alternate universe or at least give us the Star Trek beamer-transmogrifier thingy so we can travel instantaneously. C'mon!
Daniel O’Neal@thewritertype As a kid growing up in the 70s & 80s on a steady diet of #StarTrek reruns, I used to think we were heading in that direction as a society. “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice,” and all that. Not so much nowadays, though I’m not totally without hope. I did at least expect a moon base by 1999, though.
Sarah, The Website Therapist@thewritertype @Susan60 Star Trek promised that once technology got us to a post scarcity world, society would change around that. Instead society artificially creates scarcity and is generally a disappointment.
Joe Soap the nth@thewritertype But these creatures really are a heady lot, aren't they...
Studio Beau@thewritertype I certainly never anticipated that the Flintstones’ modern Stone Age family would ascend in the evolutionary hierarchy.
BoardingSoon@thewritertype I hear you. The Jetsons promised me a robot maid and flying cars and I’m still pissed they didn’t deliver.
Smplefy@thewritertype Don't forget quicksand.
Coach Pāṇini ®@thewritertype clearly wasn’t being creative enough
(((Ttown)))🌐✌@thewritertype
I wanted a Star Trek future but looks like we're headed to a Blade Runner future. I hope we can turn this around. 🙂
I wanted a Star Trek future but looks like we're headed to a Blade Runner future. I hope we can turn this around. 🙂
The Real Stephen@thewritertype Me to, I was very disappointed when the year 2000 Olympics were not held on the moon like I was told they could be
Golfhaus still uses emoji: ⛳🏠@thewritertype Oscar Wilde said when we made machines to do all the labor, humanity could focus on making art.
Instead, we made machines to make all the art, so humanity could focus on doing labor.
Björn Heile@thewritertype We got fascist bots, so...
Nick 'The Viking'I didn't notice any plague or fascism on The Jetsons, but I was quite a bit younger.
gerald@thewritertype
my guess
a future that restricts robot butlers and jetpacks to a few will probably cause more plague, disease and fascism for the rest of us
my guess
a future that restricts robot butlers and jetpacks to a few will probably cause more plague, disease and fascism for the rest of us
Dana das Grau 🧙🏻🧝♂️@thewritertype one step up and two steps back