When I think about it, I am very surprised that we have not made greater advances yet in space travel. In the middle of the 20th century things were moving much more quickly, it seems. Kennedy said that we would have someone on the moon before the 1960′s were up, and we did! But since then, the excitement has seemed to fade away a little. I know we have sent robots to Mars, but where is the technology to send people? Has it not been discovered yet, or is there just not enough interest anymore to fund it? I think many people’s eyes have turned away from the skies in the past few decades, as domestic and international issues have continued to weigh us down.
Will life ever be like it is in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Or better yet, like this?
Where is all the futuristic technology we’ve been promised by the cartoon “The Jetsons” and movies like Gattaca (1997) and Metropolis (1927)? The closest things I’ve seen have been those segways that tourists ride around on in downtown Chicago. Where are all the hovercrafts on the streets instead of cars? The helpful robots (though not the ones that surpass their owner’s intelligence and turn on them)?
Segway
Moderator, US
Joshua - Tel Aviv, Israel
Aruna - Mumbai, India
jacqueline - Cicero, US
Salvador - Orihuela, Spain
David - Orihuela, Spain
Cristo-Orihuela, Spain
Veena - Chicago, US
Nikolas - Glenview, US
Katie - Administrator, Chicago, US
Ryan - Glenview, US
Samantha - Santiago Papasquiaro, Mexico
Kaito - Tokyo, Japan
The technology has advanced a lot.
Many of the things that we can see on science fiction films exist, many of them are prototipes.
We know the moon and mars much better than our oceans and seas, It´s better to know the thinga that there are arround us, we live with that than explore, know the planets and suns, because they aren´t so important as the sea.