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{{quote|'''Hsu:''' 2001 is '''OVER.''' All your hopes and dreams for 2001--dashed!
'''Chan:''' No flying cars! No hyper-intelligent robots! No pixie-like girls in shiny silver miniskirts!
'''Hsu:''' "Darn," on that last one, by the way.|''[[Hsu and Chan]]''}}
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{{quote|''Dear [[The BBC|BBC]]. Well it's now 30 years down the line, and I'm no closer to owning a robotic housemaid. ''Tomorrow's World''? Tomorrow's horseshit, more like!''|'''Ed Byrne:''' , ''[[Mock the Week]]'', "Unlikely letters to be read out on ''Points of View''"}}
{{quote|'''Leo McGarry''': My generation never got the future it was promised... Thirty-five years later, cars, air travel is exactly the same. We don't even have the Concorde anymore. Technology stopped.
'''Josh Lyman''': The personal computer...?
'''Leo McGarry''': A more efficient delivery system for gossip and pornography? Where's my jet pack, my colonies on the Moon?|'''''[[The West Wing]]'''''}}
{{quote|'''Doctor Thirteen''': ''Ugh''. Universe and future, like they're ''one and the same''... it's so bright and shiny sci-fi. '''I'm''' waiting on that ''jet-pack'' they promised us in the ''sixties''.
'''"Architect"''': As'm I... still.
'''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]]''}}
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{{quote|''[The iPhone] can contact nearly anyone in the world, locate me on aerial maps, and plot directions to any location in the country. It is unquestionably the future, and you would have crashed your stupid flying car anyway.''|'''[[Three Panel Soul]]''', [http://www.threepanelsoul.com/view.php?date=2008-11-05 On Advancements]}}
{{quote|'''Mark''': This isn't the future! THIS IS THE LOUSY STINKIN' NOW!
'''John''': We still have hope for 2030 or even 2020. I mean, people are working on humanoid robots as we speak!|'''A filler comic from [[Tropers/Stong Radd|Stong Radd]]'s webcomic-to-be'''}}
{{quote|''Where's my hovercraft?
Where's my jetpack?
Where's the font of acquired wisdom that eludes me now?''|'''[[They Might Be Giants (band)|They Might Be Giants]]''', "The World Before Later On"}}
{{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]'''}}
{{quote|'''Boy:''' It's 2011. I want my flying car.
'''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.
'''Boy:''' Can't I have a flying car, too?
'''Girl:''' You'd crash it while texting and playing [[Angry Birds]].|''[[Xkcd]]'', [http://xkcd.com/864/ "Flying Cars"]}}
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{{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''!''|''[[The Angry Video Game Nerd]]''}}
{{quote|'''Hobbes:''' A new decade is coming up.
'''Calvin:''' Yeah, big deal! Hmph. Where are the flying cars? Where are the moon colonies? Where are the personal robots and the zero gravity boots, huh? You call this a new decade?! You call this the future?? HA! Where are the rocket packs? Where are the disintegration rays? Where are the floating cities?
'''Hobbes:''' Frankly, I'm not sure people have the brains to manage the technology they've got.
'''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
and eat a pill instead of dinner
and wear a gas mask on our face,
a President of female gender.
Though progress marches on,
our troubles will grow strong
and my expectancies, become my fantasies.
You turn my blood to sand, the earth stands still again.|'''[[Daniel Amos]]''', "(It's the Eighties, So Where's Our) Rocket Packs"}}
{{quote|'''O'Malley:''' How did you know these were rocket pants?
'''Whiskey:''' O'Malley, if you woke up in the future and you ''weren't'' wearing rocket pants, what's the first thing you'd do?
'''O'Malley:''' Kick '''''everything's''''' ass.
'''Whiskey:''' That's right. And since you weren't ducking when I woke up, I knew my pants could fly.|''from '''[http://www.cracked.com/blog/man-comics-dick-whiskey-in-one-millionth-century/ Dick Whiskey! Drunk Cop in the One Millionth Century!]''' by '''[[Seanbaby]]'''''}}
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