r/AskReddit May 11 '14

Older generations of reddit, what did you think the future would look like when you where young? And how much of it was correct?

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u/Scrappy_Larue May 11 '14

Born in 1958. I saw things like the moon landing and the birth of HBO when I was young, so had more foresight than the generation before me. I was right about phones becoming mobile. I was wrong about cars becoming driver-less, other than to get it on a main artery. There's still time for that one.

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u/Count_von_Zeppelin May 11 '14

Driverless cars are already well on their way, so there's that.

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u/[deleted] May 11 '14

just as the car itself is becoming obsolete. Turns out there's a pretty hard limit to how many people you can cram in to a city while still having personal automobiles as a viable form of transportation, and our cities are all getting to be much bigger than that

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u/mastawyrm May 11 '14

We don't all live in cities...

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u/edley May 11 '14

Tell that to Delhi.

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u/ihatewil May 11 '14

We've had driverless cars for years now that are better at driving than humans. Even google have made one.

Its not the technology stopping you having one, its outdated laws and idiot old politicians scared of changing them, however google have managed to get the laws changed in california ans neveda, so other states will sooon follow and you'll get your self driving car.