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Rick Senger
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We're almost to the end of 2013, which I just realized was the "future" year referenced in X-Men 141 and 142. Having read that issue off the stands back in 1980, 2013 sure seemed a loooong way off back then.
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Ryan Maxwell
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| Posted: November 21 2013 at 12:50am | IP Logged | 2
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It was, but 1980 doesn't seem like that long ago!
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Michael Roberts
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I'm just going to be really disappointed when we don't have hoverboards and flying cars in a little more than 13 months.
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John Byrne
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Sometimes it seems as tho a standard rule of sci-fi should be "Never predict a Future you may live to see doesn't happen."Fallen down that rabbit hole more than once myself.
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Steven Myers
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At least in "Mind Out of Time" you erased that future from happening, so you knew you would never see it!
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Kevin Brown
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Actually, I don't think the current 2013 version of the Marvel universe is all that different from what was predicted in X-Men 141 and 142. There's just as much hope and light heartedness....
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Ronald Joseph
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flying cars
I can't even begin to imagine the horrors of a world where people who have yet to master driving on a road are now given access to the skies!
OK, I've begun imagining them now...*shudder*
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Peter Hicks
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Avery Brooks from DS9 appeared in a tech company's commercial a few years ago lamenting that no matter how much technology advances, everyone keeps asking "Where is my flying car?!" He then runs through all the things the company's cell phone can do remotely, and then asks "So why do you need to fly anywhere in your car anymore?" It's probably on Youtube if you are curious. And Avery's voice is always worth listening to.
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John Byrne
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Flying cars and videophones, two staples of sci-fi for many years, neither of which have made any real emergence into the world. Probably just as well. Both seem more of an inconvenience than anything else. ("Dang! Forgot to hit the 'video off' switch when I stepped out of the shower to answer the phone!")
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Matt Hawes
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I figure that sites like Skype are close to video phones. Thankfully, people can choose to not be on camera and still converse.
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Phil Kreisel
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Speaking of flying cars, I'm reminded that Marvel (and Steranko) had the flying car concept in SHIELD back in the late 1960's in the Marvel Universe (and not as a future concept). I thought it was cool then, and I still think so now, though I don't expect to see this anytime soon
Edited by Phil Kreisel on November 21 2013 at 12:35pm
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Shaun Barry
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Growing up as a child of the '70s, I was a big fan of "Space: 1999"; later, in my teens, I was obsessed with the films 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY and 2010...
Extremely disconcerting to me that all three of those particular years are now long gone!
Edited by Shaun Barry on November 21 2013 at 1:01pm
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