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'''Doctor Thirteen''': Well, you're not going to get it. But you still cling to the promise. We all do.|''[[The DCU|Doctor Thirteen: Architecture & Morality]]''}}
{{quote|''You can't say everyone's got a water buffalo when everyone does ''not'' have a water buffalo! We're going to get nasty letters saying 'Where's ''my'' water buffalo?' 'Why don't ''I'' have a water buffalo?' and are you prepared to deal with that?! I don't think so! Just [[This Is Sparta|stop. Being. So.]] [[Completely Missing the Point|SILLY!]]''|'''Archibald Asparagus''', [[
{{quote|''I walked up on to this stage, when we all know I should have '''FLOWN'''. Via jetpack! Who's with me?... Are my shoes electric? No. Does [[Running Gag|my pillow comb my hair at night]], while I am sleeping? No, sadly, it does not. So where, I ask you, is the hoverboard technology we all saw in [[Back to The Future]] 2 over twenty years ago!''|'''Shawn Spencer''', [[Psych]]}}
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{{quote|''Where's my hovercraft?<br />
Where's my jetpack?<br />
Where's the font of acquired wisdom that eludes me now?''|'''[[They Might Be Giants (
{{quote|''I'm going to write a story set after [[The Singularity]], a million years hence, when we are all intergalactically-empowered immortal sentiences in the Beyond, and people will STILL BE COMPLAINING ABOUT NOT HAVING SODDING JETPACKS.''|'''[http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/011324.html Patrick Nielsen Hayden]'''}}
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'''Girl:''' Dude. You're complaining to me on a phone, on which you buy and read books. And which you were using to play a 3D shooter until I interrupted you with what would be a video call if I was wearing a shirt.<br />
'''Boy:''' Can't I have a flying car, too?<br />
'''Girl:''' You'd crash it while texting and playing [[Angry Birds]].|''[[
{{quote| ''[[Zeerust|It wasn't that long ago that...we had a future that we could clearly imagine.]] The future wasn't tomorrow, next week, next year, or next century. It was a place with a form, a structure, astyle [sic]...The future was a world with a distinct architecture. It had its own way of speaking. It had its own technology. It was for all intents and purposes a different land where people dressed differently, talked differently, ate differently, and even thought differently. It was where [[Science Hero|scientists were wizards]], where machines were magically effective and efficient, where tyrants were at least [[Evil Is Hammy|romantically evil rather than banal]], and where the heavens were fairyland [sic] where dreams could literally come true...}}
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{{quote| -- '''Tales of Future Past'''}}
{{quote|''[[Back to The Future|In five years, we're gonna have flying cars and hoverboards and self-lacing shoes]]... it better happen. Otherwise they should have made it the year 3000. Even if they made it 2100, we'd all be dead. It wouldn't make a difference anyway. Better to be a mystery than to be ''wrong''!''|''[[
{{quote|'''Hobbes:''' A new decade is coming up.<br />
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'''Calvin:''' I mean, ''look'' at this! We still have weather?! Give me a break!|''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]''}}
{{quote|''How can we breathe with no air? Where's Grandpa Max? If this is the future, does everybody have jetpacks? Who won the last five world series? No seriously, ''where are the jetpacks?''|'''10 year old Ben''', ''[[Ben 10: Ultimate Alien]]''}}
{{quote|I thought by now we'd live in space<br />
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