With each passing day comes some new technological advance, some gadget, breakthrough, or quantum leap that makes real something that had previously been the domain of science fiction. Japan keeps bringing us one step closer to the inevitable robot apocalypse with simulacrums like ASIMO, I’m pretty sure Europe was trying to rip the space-time continuum apart with that Large Hadron Collider thingie, and now, according to The Today Show, geneticists are a potty-break away from delivering designer babies.
Which, given that I’m a huge sci-fi wonk, would bring us one step closer to this:
Provided that progress doesn’t hasten the arrival of Judgment Day — wishful thinking, I know — I’m all for the science fiction I dig coming true. Everyone always asks, "Where’s my jet pack?" I don’t want a jet pack, I want a time-traveling DeLorean, or a dinosaur theme park, or a Cherry 2000 (not for me, but, um, for a friend…yeah, totally a buddy).
Given that sci-fi is coming true, what up-until-now-fictional innovation do you want next? (And, no, you can’t have the three-breasted woman from Total Recall.)
Two words: Hover board.
I don’t even skate and I want one.
I always thought it would be cool to have bionic parts. Like, bionic legs and maybe a bionic arm and stuff…
Ceballos, yes! Ever since B2TF Part 2, I’ve thought that was cool. My cousins told me they were real back then, and it took me a couple years to figure out they were lying. LOL
All I know is we have six more years to invent a flying car or ‘Back to the Future Part II’ is completely invalid and I do not want to see that happen.
Gattaca is not just one of the best sci-fi movies of all time, it’s also one of the most prescient.
Argh, why does all the bad stuff have to come true and all the good stuff in scifi have to be impossible? Like faster-than-light travel, and transportation, and like, psychicness. So unfair.
Cherry 2000. Hilarious. I had forgotten about that movie completely.
I dont know…I’m getting more of a GeneCo vibe then SkyNet…But hey…what do I know?
Well, from the last comment, you could tell I want a REPO! The Genetic Opera type future…
I am still holding out for a hover bard. And for the record, there is a lady with three breasts, in The Present: Tricerat*ts. Not sayin, it’s real. Just sayin it’s out there.
I want my own TARDIS, with the dishy #10 Doctor. And a hover-board, who wouldn’t? And I want to ‘beam-in’ so I can see friends across the world(s?) in a matter of seconds. I want the TNG world where money is handled and you get to concentrate on a great life. Not too fond of the post-apolalyptic worlds.