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Any West Wing fan will recognize the futurist's "whine" as attributed to Leo McGarry, the president's chief of staff: Leo McGarry: My generation never got th

by gdubs 12y ago

Any West Wing fan will recognize the futurist's "whine" as attributed to Leo McGarry, the president's chief of staff: Leo McGarry: My generation never got the future it was promised... Thirty-five years later, cars, air travel is exactly the same. We don't even have the Concorde anymore. Technology stopped. Josh Lyman: The personal computer...? Leo McGarry: A more efficient delivery system for gossip and pornography? Where's my jet pack, my colonies on the Moon?

justincormack 12y ago
Or is that from They Might Be Giants, the World Before Later On (also 2004)? Or is there an earlier source? I'm trapped in a world before later on I'm trapped in a world before later on Where's my hovercraft? Where's my jet pack? Where's the font of acquired wisdom that eludes me now? We're trapped in a world before later on We're trapped in a world before later on Where's our telray? Where's our space face? Where are all the complications we won't see around?
- lisper 12y ago
  You got your tricorder and your communicator -- both in one box no less! (And smaller and wizzier than they were originally imagined!) You can even get a phaser if you really want one: http://www.wickedlasers.com http://www.wickedlasers.com And we're making pretty good progress on the holodeck. Sure, we're still waiting for warp drive and the transporter, but still we're batting over 500. That's not too shabby.
  - digi_owl 12y ago
    Communicator, yes. Tricorder, dunno. Not enough sensors really. Then again, there is the sensordrone that may help with that.
- coroxout 12y ago
  I remember a definite pre-millennial spike in such jokes so I went looking. Never heard it before (it's on youtube so I have now), but track 2 of this album from 1984 might win the prize: http://www.discogs.com/Daniel-Amos-Vox-Humana-The-Alarma-Chronicles-Vol-III/master/431379 http://www.discogs.com/Daniel-Amos-Vox-Humana-The-Alarma-Chr... (Daniel Amos - "(It's The 80s So Where's Our) Rocket Packs")

by gdubs 12y ago

justincormack 12y ago

Or is that from They Might Be Giants, the World Before Later On (also 2004)? Or is there an earlier source? I'm trapped in a world before later on I'm trapped in a world before later on Where's my hovercraft? Where's my jet pack? Where's the font of acquired wisdom that eludes me now? We're trapped in a world before later on We're trapped in a world before later on Where's our telray? Where's our space face? Where are all the complications we won't see around?

lisper 12y ago
You got your tricorder and your communicator -- both in one box no less! (And smaller and wizzier than they were originally imagined!) You can even get a phaser if you really want one: http://www.wickedlasers.com http://www.wickedlasers.com And we're making pretty good progress on the holodeck. Sure, we're still waiting for warp drive and the transporter, but still we're batting over 500. That's not too shabby.
- digi_owl 12y ago
  Communicator, yes. Tricorder, dunno. Not enough sensors really. Then again, there is the sensordrone that may help with that.
coroxout 12y ago
I remember a definite pre-millennial spike in such jokes so I went looking. Never heard it before (it's on youtube so I have now), but track 2 of this album from 1984 might win the prize: http://www.discogs.com/Daniel-Amos-Vox-Humana-The-Alarma-Chronicles-Vol-III/master/431379 http://www.discogs.com/Daniel-Amos-Vox-Humana-The-Alarma-Chr... (Daniel Amos - "(It's The 80s So Where's Our) Rocket Packs")