I would like to know: As a 20 year old who is a sci fi obsessed person, I am really disappointed in the future today. I guess I grew up on way too much science fiction but I liked reading old magazines and articles on what people thought the future would be like. Especially if they were from the 1950s. I liked how they imagined that our lives today would have flying cars, jetpacks, video phones, underwater and lunar cities, robots, food cubes, and other wonderful inventions of the future. But the only thing that looks futuristic about the far flung year of 2014 is: Video games, Computers, the Internet, smartphones and tablets, a black president, no soviet union and that is about it. Why is our future so much lamer compared to the future that the 1950s or 1960s imagined it would be like? Why are we not like them?