When I was a child growing up in the 1980s, the culture seemed obsessed with technology and the future. The prime example of this obsession was the constant discussion and expectation that by the year 2000 that we would all be traveling by flying car.

Well it is now 2009. I do not have a flying car. I don’t even have a car…and this is the best so far that technology has produced. Click here.

This is not what I had in mind…