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On my way to work this morning, my iPod played the “Space 1999” theme while
randomly going through my music. I remembered that this last Tuesday would
have been the 17th anniversary of the moon getting blown out of orbit.
(September 13, 1999)

That got me thinking about how that was set 17 years ago, but had much
better tech than we have now. According to them, things we’d have before
now:
Artificial gravity, interstellar space probes, hand held laser guns (with a
stun setting), fusion power, and a bunch of other things.
Of course, they had lived through a nuclear war and, the whole “moon
knocked out of Earth orbit and causes massive damage to Earth” might make
it a future I wouldn’t want to live in.

Star Trek is more modest.
Interplanetary travel, suspended animation, artificial gravity & advanced
genetic manipulation by the early 90’s.
But, they’ve got 2 nuclear wars: Eugenics and WWIII.

Lost in Space? (The show. Not that horrible movie.)
Interstellar travel, suspended animation, artificial gravity, laser guns
(no stun) and AI robots.
No big war I know of. But, spys going around trying to sabotage
interstellar ships.
Could be worse than that one.

Back to the Future? (non-Biff world where we seem to be now…)
Hologram movie posters, robot service stations, hoverboards, flying cars,
self fitting clothes, self drying clothes and time travel. (Well, the when
on time travel is hard to pin down…)
Creepy sleep inducers and fax machines make me wonder about that one.

2001?
Interstellar travel, AI… Yeah, not that much we don’t have.
Alien induced human evolution that blows up planets? Right, avoid that one.

Logan’s Run?
I’m about to turn 53. Skip.

I don’t know. I miss some of those futures.
So, I’ll just post this on the planetary computer network from my hand held
device and think about flying cars…