this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2024
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We didn't get hover cars, personal jetpacks, high speed personal tube travel systems, moon bases or mars terraforming.
But we do have robot dogs, electronic cigarettes, lying AI and the ability to kill people remotely by dropping grenades on their heads from almost invisible micro aircraft.
Not just robot dogs, but flame throwing robot dogs.
JFC, how soon before they fly? Oh. That's now, apparently. Great.