It's 2009.
If anything I watched growing up had an ounce of truth to it: we should have Replicants by 2019, hover boards coasting us to cities built out of lasers ala TMNT in Time's second to last level set in the year 2020 which I decided to revisit at 1:30 am this morning on a work day, in 2005 giant robots that can turn into awesome cars should have helped us battle a giant planet eater named Galvatron voiced by Orson Wells, in 2015 even more bad ass hover boards will be available to outrun bullies that look suspiciously like Flea (who recently started a band with Thom Yorke and at this point in both their carriers I don't know if either party wins because you can't un-write One Hot Minute), in 1999 mini disc players supplied by a Ralph Finnes should have let us live out our wildest fantasies, and in 2012 planes piloted by John Cusack's family are going to be able to fly around the world forever and avoid the Apocalypse or something... I can't really tell because I was distracted by all the crazy amounts of shit blowing up and falling over in that trailer.
It's 2009. 1/3rd of this country hates the President because he is 1/2 black, Insurance companies have a decades old death grip on health care and it doesn't look like it's going to change anytime soon, and Iphones won't even recognize Hell in it's predictive text. You call this progress?! Admittedly 2 out of 3 of these things have nothing to do with the lack of robots in our society but that's not the point... or maybe it is. All of this amazing stuff that has been promised to happen within the last 10 to next 20 years is no where in sight. Our last major technological advancement was transferring paper words into electronic ones.
Light bulb - radio - silent movies - flight - nuclear bomb - TV - space flight ... then ... Internet. The Internet was in it's infant stages in the early 80's. It's been 30 years.
I don't think I'm getting a hover board anytime soon. This is bullshit.
