as we all know very well the future that our parents were looking forward to never arrived, and i don’t mean all that hippy-free love-activism-peace stuff they all so willingly forgot about the second they jumped a tax bracket. i mean that other future. so file this under the “where the hell are our flying cars and robot butlers?” category. found a couple sites which show that delinquent future in all its demented glory. future past and retro future. both well worth a nice long visit. on an ostensibly related note: article about nasa funding for R&D of science-fictional ideas. maybe that future will arrive after all?