# Future technologies/inventions you were told about as a child that never came to be

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 9, 2002, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/future-technologies-inventions-you-were-told-about-as-a-child-that-never-came-to-be/141622 "2002-12-09T21:50:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/future-technologies-inventions-you-were-told-about-as-a-child-that-never-came-to-be/141622/21 "2002-12-11T17:16:44Z")

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I’d settle for “paying a toll… without slowing down.”

EZpass is great, but you gotta go 15MPH through it if you don’t want a ticket.

and where’s that moonbase? Or humans on Mars?

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**Author:** ![Breezy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b3f665/32.png) [@Breezy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Breezy)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/future-technologies-inventions-you-were-told-about-as-a-child-that-never-came-to-be/141622/22 "2002-12-11T17:18:52Z")

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I’ll second the flying cars. And why don’t we live way up in the sky, like the Jetson’s.

I’d also like one of those handy computers that fits over my head for a few moments and gives me a new make-up look and a new hair style.

(I LOVE the Jettsons)

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**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/future-technologies-inventions-you-were-told-about-as-a-child-that-never-came-to-be/141622/23 "2002-12-11T17:43:05Z")

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**dwc1970** was that the Book of Predictions you had? I LOVED that book! I’d break it out every 5 years or so just to see how wrong all their predictions were.

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