This is one of the many reasons why I consider all "fururist" media as just sci-fi wish fulfillment for kiddies. Its just incredible how unreadable /r/futurolog

This is one of the many reasons why I consider all "fururist" media as just sci-fi wish fulfillment for kiddies. Its just incredible how unreadable /r/futurology is, for example. Its just a lot of pats on the back about some amazing life-changing technology, that is eternally 10 years away. I don't have access to the Mondo 2000 stuff today, but if any of that was to believed we'd have AI masterminded rockets to moon condos and eternal life by now. The big advances were actually missed as things like interchangable and standardized protocols, power saving SoCs, incremental battery improvements, touchscreens, and fast networks are "boring" compared to spacetravel and robots and such. I feel I'm also seeing the same hype train today with VR, which has unsolved major issues like motion sickness and questionable applications in gaming, let alone anywhere else. To a lesser extent I see the same thing with electric cars that are always somehow 2-3 years from affordability and economic and range parity with ICE cars. These 2-3 years keep blowing past us, but there's no 200 mile range $20,000 car yet, if there will ever be. Its a shame that practical and real advances are often "boring" to the typical sci-fi obsessed INTJ males who dominate science on the internet. I see so much spilled ink about SpaceX and very little about the upcoming SLS and its planned pioneering manned missions or NASA's robotic and science missions, which are all mindblowingly amazing to me. Sadly, this has all become politicized in the most asinine way possible with a dedicated libertarian group on the web voicing this private vs public rivalry to attack NASA, which is ironic as SpaceX is more or less a welfare program of NASA and the US taxpayers. I hope this fad doesn't last long and good science, real breakthroughs, and the largely unpredictable and usually unsexy, in terms of whiz bang space operas, future continues to unfold before us in a wonderful way. The SLS will have us on an asteroid with just boring old chemical rockets, while the futurists continue to sell snake oil to the low information true believers and diminish the amazing and real accomplishments of the day. "Everything's amazing and nobody's happy." - Louis CK.