When will the future get here?

I was a huge science fiction kid growing up. In the 1990s I was bombarded by messages about how we were going to live life in the future. Sadly to say its 2010s everything dosent look that fantastic. Sure iPhones and computers are cool. But the world and everything else is the same. Where are all the hover cars, the moon colonies, the robots, the food pills, the Ray guns, etc. They said this would be the future at least from 1950s Sci Fi authors. What happened?

There will never be food pills. (How can a pill possibly have enough calories in it to sustain human life?) The rest are here, more or less, but they aren't practical in any sense. (For instance ray-guns, or "directed energy weapons" use more energy than they discharge.) Hovercars have been around since the 1970s, but again, they aren't very practical, and flying cars less still (if air traffic controllers have their hands full with jets, imagine if EVERYONE was in the air).

Just wait till another, 40 years and you will see robots self driving car's nanotechnology for military and civilian. Use and many cool things check this out?

"The World in 2030" by Dr. Michio Kaku

Futurism is like aging or gaining weight. It advances so slowly that you don't notice it. Then "suddenly" you're old. You're fat. The future is here. There's a lot of amazing stuff around. OK, science fiction movies and books didn't get everything right, but our technology is more advanced in some ways than the communication machines and computers and other things on the original Star Trek. As well, it depends where you look. In Dubai, for example, you see a lot of cool stuff. In Ames, Iowa, not really.

This is the future already, for some. For others it is the past and for a selected few, it is the present. Maybe you missed the starting gun.