You call this a new decade?

[Muninn]

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?

I know some of these we already have examples of, but not to the extent or sophistication as they were speculated/written about in the past or sci-fi. That's the basis for the question, not any minor bothersome details such as being actually feasible with current technology.

I set it so everyone has three options, since there's a lot of stuff.

[Cactus Jack]

I spent the last night puking, so I'm warming up to food pills at the moment.

[Maggot Brain]

I hate to be 'that guy', but technically the new decade won't start until 2011.

[sad jazz cantaloupe]

"technically" as in "if you're counting every single year" but that's only important if you were actually alive back in 1 AD, which no one was, and actually (or rather, technically) we can start the new decade in 2014 if we actually wanted to.


That being said, I'd like the moon colony so much :/ that, holographic displays, and of course self-sustaining rutabega farms.

[Segovia]

I hate to be 'that guy', but technically the new decade won't start until 2011.

True, so very true.

I voted for flying cars, food pills, and holograms. Flying cars will eliminate the use of roads and there for allow trees to regrow, food pills could end world hunger, and holograms are just cool.

[Muninn]

I hate to be 'that guy', but technically the new decade won't start until 2011.

It doesn't matter much. Any ten year period is a decade, it's just humans like figures ending in 0 to base their calenders around and attach importance to. Besides, everyone got what I meant by decade even if they don't agree on it.

[Arloest]

Yeah, pants that 'years that end in 0 don't make a new decade' shit - years are an arbitrary number anyway, so we might as well logically place all of the 10's years within the same decade.

Plus, it's not like the world began 2009 years ago.

[likeafox]

I have write-ins.

First I want electronic paper. And I mean with all of the following properties:

• same reflective properties of paper
• emit no light
• image persists without energy, and only requires energy to change
• thin, light, and flexible
• no bulky attachments required, and no attachments at all as long as it goes unaltered
• affordable enough and with common enough applications so as it may be available to the mainstream market, ie to the extent that solid state disks are now

I WANT ELECTRONIC PAPER NOW D:<

Also plz want the energy storage technology companies like EEStor promise. Though at this point, it seems very much like a hoax.

[Maggot Brain]

Yeah, pants that 'years that end in 0 don't make a new decade' shit - years are an arbitrary number anyway, so we might as well logically place all of the 10's years within the same decade.

Plus, it's not like the world began 2009 years ago.

Well, someone was bound to say it.

[nickspoon]

I have write-ins.

First I want electronic paper. And I mean with all of the following properties:

• same reflective properties of paper
• emit no light
• image persists without energy, and only requires energy to change
• thin, light, and flexible
• no bulky attachments required, and no attachments at all as long as it goes unaltered
• affordable enough and with common enough applications so as it may be available to the mainstream market, ie to the extent that solid state disks are now

I WANT ELECTRONIC PAPER NOW D:<

Existing E-paper already does most of that. Zero-gravity boots, on the other hand, are far less well-developed.

[Foxchild]

I've always gone wit hthe decades refered to as the 90's, 80's, etc. so ending it at the end of a "9" year makes sense for that.

Hoverboots, flying car, holograms

[Doc Sigma]

I want teleportation, growcap style. I want to go home? I reach into my growcap holder and break a "home" growcap. I want to go to the mall? I reach into my growcap holder and break a "mall" growcap.

[sad jazz cantaloupe]

that would actually be pretty cool, let's call up Doc Foster and see if he'll share that technology with us yet.

[edit:] actually, you wouldn't need a home growcap, silly! you just have to die.

[Caoimhin]

I want teleportation, growcap style. I want to go home? I reach into my growcap holder and break a "home" growcap. I want to go to the mall? I reach into my growcap holder and break a "mall" growcap.

I'm not sure that would work in Jersey... The question being how they would fit all those Jersey mall girls in one capsule... (j/k, it's not the 80's, if it were I wouldn't be kidding ).
Floating cities, self-sustaining rutebega farms, and holographic displays. Floating cities because... well minimal environmental impact on the earth's surface... self-sustaining rutebega farms because I like turnips... And holographic displays because they're cool.

[Tom_Radigan]

Flying cars will eliminate the use of roads and there for allow trees to regrow

Except that if you forget to set the parking brake...OUCH!