Ever had a "I want my Jetpack" moment?

Was there ever a moment where you wondered that its the year 20XX and you have wondered about when you are going to get your futuristic X or Y invention?

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IWantMyJetPack

I want a large and heavily armed flying aircraft carrier.

I want hoverboards. Like really, really want hoverboards. I had a cringey sk8r girl phase for like 2 months years ago. But if hoverboards get invented anytime soon, I'm jumping right back in.

I wish we had shrink rays.

Of course i'd be using them on myself.

I want rocket boots.

I want a superpowered, portable computer that lets me research information anywhere I go, or talk to someone from the other side of the world.

Oh, wait.

Reliable solar energy, an end to our dependence on air-polluting, limited resources.

No poverty.

Also, teleporters - so long as they can be made to teleport the real you, rather than a copy. Damn Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle!

I want my free flow of data and globally saturated 4G internet.

I'm sure I read that in a speculative fiction book somewhere.

I want my own personal giant robot to commute to work or play.

I seem to be the other way around. I'm barely aware of what present-day technology is capable of (you mean there already are trains that go over 100 MPH/computers you can wear like a wristwatch/phone apps that can scan your check and deposit it/phone apps that can identify a song that's playing/lasers for surgical use/chips you can implant in your pets so they can be tracked/ways of growing plants without using dirt/wireless printer-scanners/electronic guitar tuners I can carry in my pocket/etc. etc. etc.?).

I want my space-faring NASA.

@Ozbourne: Would it help to know that NASA patented a rocket shoes design with actual rockets in 1969?

Awesome!

Yep and for an actual jetpack. I could be like "Hmmm I'm not really feelin' the whole driving thing today, I'mma fly there instead." Also you could go to the basketball court and do some monster dunks until they kick you out.

I wanna take a Pan Am rocket plane to the space station.

I'd prefer to stay the hell away from anything with 'Pan-Am' written on it...

I really want a shrinkray to use on myself. Adventures as a tiny little person sounds fun to me!

That sounds dangerous.

Eh, I've done more dangerous things.

Well, if you ever plan on doing it, I'd be glad to help.

-pretends to sneeze- Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

I don't think I'd want to be shrunk; have you seen how very small animals eat? It's all paralysis and digestive juices and innard-sucking.

I really wish we had a friendly relationship with aliens already.

I'm getting kinda tired of humans. I want to be able to explore a completely new culture.

edited 28th Sep '14 10:23:57 PM by Mukora

That, and I want casual international travel to anywhere in basically no time so that visiting some people would actually be feasible.

(In other words, fuck jetpacks, I want scramjets!)

edited 28th Sep '14 10:56:28 PM by rmctagg09

A scramjet that flew for ten seconds at Mach 9.6 or a scramjet that flew for six minutes at Mach 5?

I don't care at all about jetpacks. I want a fully interactive, non-cumbersome form of telepresence, in order to be able to interact and "travel" all around the world, with 100% fidelity, while remaining physically back home in my safe and comfortable neck of the woods. Adventures are nasty uncomfortable things, after all :-)

Putting my physical body into some sort of flying vehicle and make it zip around strikes me as unsafe, unnecessarily cumbersome, and frankly quite unnecessary. Just give me some sort of virtual reality/direct brain interface thing, connect me to some sort of drone, and let me have fun!

I think we'll get there relatively soon, by the way...