History Quotes / IWantMyJetPack

->''I walked up on to this stage, when we all know I should have '''FLOWN'''. Via jetpack! Who's with me?... Are my shoes electric? No. Does [[RunningGag my pillow comb my hair at night]], while I am sleeping? No, sadly, it does not. So where, I ask you, is the hoverboard technology we all saw in BackToTheFuture 2 over twenty years ago!''

->''[[BackToTheFuture In five years, we're gonna have flying cars and hoverboards and self-lacing shoes]]... it better happen. Otherwise they should have made it the year 3000. Even if they made it 2100, we'd all be dead. It wouldn't make a difference anyway. Better to be a mystery than to be ''wrong''!''

-> ''You can't say everyone's got a water buffalo when everyone does ''not'' have a water buffalo! We're going to get nasty letters saying 'Where's ''my'' water buffalo?' 'Why don't ''I'' have a water buffalo?' and are you prepared to deal with that?! I don't think so! Just [[ThisIsSparta stop. Being. So.]] [[CompletelyMissingThePoint SILLY!]]''

-->-- ''{{XKCD}}'', [[http://xkcd.com/864/ "Flying Cars"]]

-->-- ''WebOriginal/TheAngryVideoGameNerd''

-->-- '''TheyMightBeGiants''', "The World Before Later On"

-->-- '''Archibald Asparagus''', VeggieTales

-->-- ''TheAngryVideoGameNerd''

->'''Calvin:''' I mean, ''look'' at this! [[IDyeGrass We still have weather?!]] Give me a break!

->'''10 year old Ben:''' How can we breathe with no air? Where's Grandpa Max? If this is the future, does everybody have jetpacks? Who won the last five world series? No seriously, ''where are the jetpacks?''
-->-- ''Ben10UltimateAlien''

->''[[{{Zeerust}} It wasn't that long ago that...we had a future that we could clearly imagine.]] The future wasn't tomorrow, next week, next year, or next century. It was a place with a form, a structure, astyle [sic]...The future was a world with a distinct architecture. It had its own way of speaking. It had its own technology. It was for all intents and purposes a different land where people dressed differently, talked differently, ate differently, and even thought differently. It was where [[ScienceHero scientists were wizards]], where machines were magically effective and efficient, where tyrants were at least romantically evil rather than banal, and where the heavens were fairyland [sic] where dreams could literally come true...

'''Girl:''' Dude. You're complaining to me on a phone, on which buy and read books. And which you were using to play a 3D shooter until I interrupted you with what would be a video call if I was wearing a shirt.\\

->As Midnight brought in the year 2000 (or 2001 if you prefer), something odd began to sink in. For people of my generation, who had lived through the tarnished promises of the Atomic Age, the Space Age, the Computer Age, and the This That and Another Age, the year 2001 was a gateway. We waited twenty, thirty, forty years and some longer to pass though that gate into a time when [[StarshipLuxurious spaceships the size of ocean liners]] plied between colonised planets, where [[CrystalSpiresAndTogas cities were colourful collections of brand new towers without a single old building or blade of grass, where people wore jumpsuits like they were the togas of a technocratic Rome]], where [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot robots were our powerful and obedient servants]], and where [[JetPack jetpacks]] were as common as galoshes...Our future was supposed to be a sort of technocratic, atomic-powered, computer-controlled, antiseptic, space-travelling Jerusalem that would at last free us from the curse of Eden and original sin. We expected some how, some way that we would be on the road to being freed from the human condition. We expected a sort of bloodless, benign French Revolution with Hugo Gernsback as our Voltaire and Carl Sagan as our Robespierre. And what did we get? The City of Man with Tivo.

->'''Hobbes:''' A new decade is coming up.
->'''Calvin:''' Yeah, big deal! Hmph. Where are the flying cars? Where are the moon colonies? Where are the personal robots and the zero gravity boots, huh? You call this a new decade?! You call this the future?? HA! Where are the rocket packs? Where are the disintegration rays? Where are the floating cities?
->'''Hobbes:''' Frankly, I'm not sure people have the brains to manage the technology they've got.
->'''Calvin:''' I mean, ''look'' at this! We still have ''weather?!'' Give me a break!
-->-- ''CalvinAndHobbes''

->'''Ed Byrne:''' Dear [[TheBBC BBC]]. Well it's now 30 years down the line, and I'm no closer to owning a robotic housemaid. ''Tomorrow's World''? Tomorrow's horseshit, more like!
-->-- ''MockTheWeek'', "Unlikely letters to be read out on ''Points of View''"

->''I thought by now I'd walk the moon,\\
and ride a car without no tires,\\
and have a robot run the vacuum,\\
and date [[RobotGirl a girl made out of wires]].\\
No things don't change that much, do they?''
-->-- '''DanielAmos''', "(It's the Eighties, So Where's Our) Rocket Packs"

-> "You can't say everyone's got a water buffalo when everyone does ''not'' have a water buffalo! We're going to get nasty letters saying 'Where's ''my'' water buffalo?' 'Why don't ''I'' have a water buffalo?' and are you prepared to deal with that?! I don't think so! Just [[ThisIsSparta stop. Being. So.]] [[CompletelyMissingThePoint SILLY!]]"

->"I walked up on to this stage, when we all know I should have '''FLOWN'''. Via jetpack! Who's with me?... Are my shoes electric? No. Does [[RunningGag my pillow comb my hair at night]], while I am sleeping? No, sadly, it does not. So where, I ask you, is the hoverboard technology we all saw in BackToTheFuture 2 over twenty years ago!"

-> "Stupid Department of Jetpack Suppression..."

->[The iPhone] can contact nearly anyone in the world, locate me on aerial maps, and plot directions to any location in the country. It is unquestionably the future, and you would have crashed your stupid flying car anyway.

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->[The iPhone] can contact nearly anyone in the world, locate me on aerial maps, and ot directions to any location in the country. It is unquestionably the future, and you would have crashed your stupid flying car anyway.

-->[The iPhone] can contact nearly anyone in the world, locate me on aerial maps, and ot directions to any location in the country. It is unquestionably the future, and you would have crashed your stupid flying car anyway.

-->[The iPhone] can contact nearly anyone in the world, locate me on aerial maps, and lot directions to any location in the country. It is unquestionably the future, and you would have crashed your stupid flying car anyway.

-->[The iPhone] can contact nearly anyone in the world, locate me on aerial maps, and plot directions to any location in the country. It is unquestionably the future, and you would have crashed your stupid flying car anyway.

-->-- '''Daniel Amos''', "(It's the Eighties, So Where's Our) Rocket Packs"

->'''Calvin:''' I mean, look at this! We still have ''weather?!'' Give me a break!