Ask HN: What "futuristic" technologies have not yet been realized?

7 points·mharathy··13 comments

Obvious ones that come to mind: teleportation, flying cars, true virtual reality. Any more?

Not all technologies per se, but: human level AI, immortality, underwater portable breathing device.

"underwater portable breathing device."

We've had SCUBA for a while, actually. :)

But I assume you mean something that pulls oxygen directly from the water, like gills?

I'm still waiting for the first manned lunar base.

(Not to mention the catastrophic nuclear waste accident that sends the moon out of its orbit and into the deepest reaches of space - that one's overdue by 11 years now).

(sorry)

Seamless augmented reality, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End

Hoverboards.

organic multistrand machines capable of exceeding dexterity, efficiency, longevity and power output of the human muscle and linkage capability of ligatures.

Human cloning, AI, faster-than-light travel

Faster-than-light travel: wasn't this proved to be impossible by Einstein? I believe the only way would be to get your body rebuilt somewhere else in space through teleportation.

Even that is "outlawed": the fundamental principle is that information can't travel faster than the speed of light.

It seems information could potentially travel faster than light through quantum entanglement: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/08/13/entangl...

effective cures for most known ailments, thought-reading technology, commercially viable nuclear fusion power

all of them, once you invent it it stops living in the future.

jetpack, robo-maid, soylent green

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