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What Happened To The Future?

Those of a certain age (like myself) remember the era of techno-optimism in the 1960s and even earlier: by the year 2000, we would have flying cars and personal jetpacks, and taking holidays on the Moon, and manned exploration of the other planets of our solar system would be well underway. For one idea of what this future would look like, just watch the classic movie 2001: A Space Odyssey from 1968. There are other portrayals from around that era along similar lines. So what actually happened? Instead of routine rocketry and widespread space travel, we got computers and the Internet, mobile phones, high-definition TV--the whole panoply of