We started with a monstrous box that served as our computer. Households didn’t have multiple computers then, they had one. One for the entire house, one for the entire block, one for the entire area. They were too expensive for us to own, so we shared.
As the years have progressed though we have become more and more comfortable and adaptable with technology and computers. Instead of staring at them figuring out how to turn them on and off, we progressed into screaming and banging on them, and into unplugging them and problem solving them in our own time.
So how is it that society foresaw us to be in a different place with technology now? The Jetsons said that we were going to be travelling in air, transporting ourselves to the malls, and vacuum tubing up and down instead of using an elevator. Where is Rosie the maid? We have loads and loads of dishes to clean and no one else to help us out around our houses? Now granted we aren’t in the stone age (thanks Flinstones!) but are we truly in the balanced in between?
Will we ever get to a hovering car before the earth cools? Will we have created something that magnificent by the time whoever is reading this dies?
Now all that we can seem to focus our time on is trying to find the cheapest, most fuel-efficient car for an affordable price. If the conversation is not about the cars then it is about the computer. And finding the coolest, least expensive, most powerful, handheld computer out there.
So what gives? We’ve seen the commercials and cartoons, the how-tos and websites, but all we want are the house cleaning robots, and the hovering cars! When will this ever happen? We hope for tomorrow.