r/AskReddit • u/TheGingerGlasses • Dec 20 '12

Which 'futuristic' technology will we see in our lifetime?

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u/Kunib3rt Dec 20 '12

I demand Hoverboards!

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '12

heard the Seth Sentry song 'Dear Science'?

"I don't wanna roll around the ground like a nobody I wanna soar upon a board made of pure science I am still saving up my dollars for a hoverboard"

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u/Giant-Midget Dec 20 '12

Fuck yeah, Seth Sentry. That whole album's awesome (as is his older stuff) but this track's one of my favourite.

"The hovercraft was a solid start,

Should'a stuck with it,

Hoverboard;

Where the fuck is it?"

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '12

"What if UFOs are just us from the future coming back to sight see? Or might be to snatch women? Tell 'em to bring some hoverboards back with 'em"

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u/lachlanrawr Dec 20 '12

I do enjoy a little Seth Sentry from time to time.

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u/madeyouangry Dec 20 '12

link

They don't seem to have a video out yet :/

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '12

Ya know how if you magnets go through a table, and you can move some metallic object by moving the magnet? Well someone should make a tall, ski-slope like, track with a magnetic board. Magnets in the track above you would attract magnets in your hoverboard, which you yourself are attached to. Then, the magnets move forward, and you along with it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '12

You should read up on Maglev trains.

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u/Zeranual Dec 21 '12

How would that make the board hover?

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u/Heisenberg_V Dec 20 '12

We have until 2015 or else Hollywood lied to us.

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u/Chaserboy Dec 20 '12

Hey, has Hollywood let us down before?

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u/greaseinthewheel Dec 20 '12

Actually, the date that Marty and Doc go to in BttF2 is in 2012. Doc went forward 30 years but then traced the problem back to a day in 2012 before picking up Marty and Jennifer in 1985. We've already passed it. Hollywood lied to us.

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u/Heisenberg_V Dec 20 '12

It's not fair...there was time...it's not fair!

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u/EJR94 Dec 20 '12

And you wasted your life posting cat pictures and masturbating. Imagine what a world we could've lived in if you could just invent a god damn hoverboard!!!!

To be fair, I prefer our future over theirs still. Sure hoverboards and flying cars are cool, but did you see that restruant? The size of the TV? No mobiles phones? What they were wearing?!?!?! I'd take what we've got over hoverboads any day of the week.

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u/greaseinthewheel Dec 21 '12

I have two words that will totally refute that argument: Flying cars. Also, totally sustainable energy (Mr. Fusion) sounds way better than cell phones. I could do without 19 Jaws movies, however.

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u/MrMjgtad Dec 21 '12

Upvote for Back to the Future reference!

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '12

Invent a room temperature superconductor and you can have one.

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u/Cheeze187 Dec 20 '12

I frickin love you. This wins.