POLL: Do the gadgets that exist today live up to your expectations from childhood?

Question

This poll is in honor of "Back To The Future Day". Think back to your early childhood visions of technology. Do the gadgets that exist today live up to your expectations? Tell us why.

I personally watched a lot of The Jetsons so I'm still waiting for my flying car and robot housekeeper. (I do have a Roomba but it sadly cannot pick the laundry off my bedroom floor)

Taylor Majewski · Accepted Answer

I'm definitely still waiting for flying cars.

Rahul · Answer

Iron Man suit & jarvis is not fully here yet so I would say "kind of" 😛

Primer · Answer

No flying cars, no space travel, no teleportation.

Smart phones and watches etc are just iterations of the Commodore 64 from the 80s. They’re just better / smaller implementations of what’s been around for half a century.

Sagar Khatri · Answer

Not until I am able to reach anywhere through teleportation.

Devanand Premkumar · Answer

@rahulmfg I would love to see Jarvis much earlier than Iron Man :D

Abadesi · Answer

@rahulmfg haha yes feels like we're a long way off that suit! Although we have some voice tech it's not Jarvis level :D

Answer

Not at all!  It's infuriating!  IMO some weird wrinkle in time happened back in the 90s that gave technological progress feet of clay.

Devanand Premkumar · Answer

@taylormajewski It's pretty much in the making and I am pretty sure we will sure see it in our lifetime. Hold on to that vision for some more time.

Abadesi · Answer

@dssagar93 teleportation! That would be incredible

KachurMTB 777 · Answer

@taylormajewski @devaonbreaches I think it will be not so fast like you think(

Jonathan Sun · Answer

I think so. They're super futuristic compared to what was around 12 years ago, but yet because the progress was so gradual we kind of already got used to them. Like when I was 10 I thought the iPhone 3G was the most advanced thing in the world, yet here we are with the iPhone 11...

Usama Raudo · Answer

yes they did

Usama Raudo · Answer

but waiting for flying cars :D

Abraham Katemba Ndala Ndala · Answer

Technology is the motion of today future ,and it a notion of power and progress for the new generation, it really good todays future, than the past

Abraham Katemba Ndala Ndala · Answer

Am waiting for any price

POLL: Do the gadgets that exist today live up to your expectations from childhood?

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