What I Was Promised in the Future vs. What I Received

Future Alley 2050

Was promised: Flying cars

Received: People who won’t shut up about the drone they got for Christmas

 

Was promised: Gourmet food at the touch of a button

Received: The Domino’s app

 

Was promised: Teleportation

Received: Snapchats of places that are more fun than wherever I am

 

Was promised: Personal robot assistants

Received: Siri still mispronouncing my name

 

Was promised: A lot of solar panels

Received: Only a few solar panels

 

Was promised: Really cool and fashionable visual computing devices

Received: Google Glass

Was promised: Telepathic communication

Received: Amazon telling me to buy 50 boxes of oatmeal just because I looked at it that one time

 

Was promised: Chrome buildings and clothing

Received: Normcore

 

Was promised: Nuclear fusion

Received: That one time BBC accidentally called it the Large Hardon Collider

 

Was promised: Contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life

Received: Tinder

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