The future is now

It's 2017. If you were growing up in the 90s and 80s or earlier this time held such promise as to what the "future" would be.

How did it live up to your expectations? How do you feel about the future?

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I'm pleasantly disappointed.

Born in 77, didn't expect to live this long desu. Just enjoying the ride for now. Fuck the world.

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I agree. Only thing that's different is that the screens are flatter and internet is faster and wireless.

Culturally however feels like a disaster.

Just sit around hoping for a civil war so we can wipe out the filth before we completely wind up in a idiocracy.

which we are pretty damn close to it.

How I imagined future:

>I'll have a job that I enjoy.
>I will be successful, happy and moderately wealthy.
>I will have my own house.
>I will travel the world with my beautiful gf.

Reality:

>2nd year in moms basement posting on thai anal beads crafting forum.

I didn't think cell phones would completely change the way people interact. Its kind of insane how they have in such a short time. I saw early cell phones, but they weren't like this.

Also expected flying cars by this point. For the past 10 years, nobody was buying new cars, so 90s shitboxes were all overpriced. Glad thats changing, but new cars really lack innovation or soul. Its either "Sports car for 50 year old executive" or "small Euro designed family econobox".

I expected to use the internet differently, but other than watching videos and streaming Netflix, most of what I do could have been done in 2002.

I would have expected to make more money than my parents, who combined make about $70k. 20 years later, they make about the same, and I may make less.

I thought it would be great but everything has gone worse.

In the 1990s we had no niggers or mudslimes, commies had just lost their Soviet sponsor so politics was properly right-wing, the EU hadn't happened, oh man I wish I could go back in time.

>We didn't all die in nuclear fire
>Video games are abundant and cheap
>The Internet give us the whole of human knowledge at our whim
>Smartphones give us the internet on demand
>Unlimited porn
>All music and video media available on demand
>Instant worldwide communication with anyone and everyone alive

Honestly young brats don't know how magical the world has become. The shit we complain about now is trivial by comparison.

I just bought my first new vehicle after owning 23 different piece of shit 90s vehicles.

Chevrolet built their trucks right. My truck is super comfy.

But the internet is mostly a shithole. Its either streaming sites or forums.

Genuinely considering suicide because the future looks so dark. Even if I managed to get rich society is about to become so worthless that I don't even want to live in this fucking world anymore.

>>Video games are abundant and cheap
>>Smartphones give us the internet on demand
>>Unlimited porn
>>All music and video media available on demand
>>Instant worldwide communication with anyone and everyone alive

All of this is problematic, newfag

>from Reddit
yes OP the future is more dank than i could have ever hoped

I can't imagine the 2030s. The future looks too bleak and I've fucked up my life too much to fix it. time is moving too quick and it's unbearable. I'm blackpilled in most things now. I wish that if there was actually a God they would let me wake up again 5yrs old and do everything over.Will probably anhero in the next 5 years of I don't see significant improvement.

I'm enjoying the ride.

why not wait so you can witness the end?

They want that negative energy. I was considering ending it all just a few months ago, but great things await us. All you have to do is wake up.

I'm reserving judgement until 2019. That's my future. Looks we're right on track except less replicants and more faggots.

GEE, GOYIM, WE HAVE PROVIDED YOU WITH ENDLESS ENTERTAINMENT, WHY ARE YOU STILL SO UNHAPPY?!?!

Seriously, the world sucks now compared to the past, all innocence is dead, people are intentionally making every wrong decision to slowly kill themselves, we're all fucking miserable, but hey, there's more porn than ever and I can shop on Amazon on my phone so I don't have to get off the couch ever again, so I guess it's all good, amirite?

Oh we past the point of holy fuck that's awesome. I never had the expectations that PEOPLE would advance. For me I had a boner for technology and accessibility. Life is the best it could ever be in a lot of sense. Christ I can make my own game now with UNITY/UNREAL ENGINE. MicroSD cards are in the gigabytes.
Sci Fi movies have awesome special effects now. I'm not subjected to WATCHING 30 CHANNELS OF CABLE and believing all the shit in the news paper and the news now. I don't have to rely on dipshits to teach me.

Almost EVERYTHING is free at this point. Ebooks, Movies, Music, it's great! People are still stupid but will that ever change?

Processors going from a few megahertz to what they are now fulfilled my expectations of the future. We're pretty much at the limit of what we can do with silicon now though, so I'm curious if we'll find another semiconductor material to replace silicon to keep progress going or if we're going to plateau.

I know it seems like the West is about to inevitably collapse every single day if you browse Sup Forums regularly, but when you go outside does the world really seem that bad? Sure, if you live in a city maybe, but most parts of America, and most Western countries from my experience, are still pretty comfy desu.

Look let's be brutally honest. After all that's happened the last few years, my hometown and its people feel the exact same for the most part. I've heard others on Sup Forums say similar things. So why does it seem like the nation as a whole is falling apart? Think of where you get your perception of our country from, Sup Forums and the media, and other places that thrive off of sensationalism.

Pol is clouding your mind guys. This place can be a pathway to truth but it also has a tendency to hyperbolize everything wrong with the world to a point where it seems a lot worse than it is. I hope you reconsider your pessimistic views.

>problematic

Fuck off you embarrassing retard.

Whoa, kick ass gif. I wish that was an actual game. PC Blade Runner was good though.

Fuck you, you dumb fucking Britbong. Go get fucking bombed again you sad shit

Sup Forums is always right and a refuse from the obviously lying media, we are in danger senpai

I've got a few

I was 8 when the 90's ended would have given a limb or two to be 18 when the 90's ended to have been able to participate in the far more active right wing death squads.

I had no thoughts about the technology. I dreamed of being a pro skateboarder. It didn't happen. Now I'm in mechatronics to put food on the table. It could be worse. Hopefully society won't collapse

born in 85. thought we'd be in the jetsons era by now.

Where is my fucking flying car?

Didn't we recently pass the month and year of inception for Pris?

Where's my fucking flying car?
Reeeeeee

Flying cars, more space travel and robots everywhere. I guess airplanes you can drive on the road count as flying cars and everyone has a drone or roombah, only thing missing is the space travel.

>Expected flying cars
We had flying cars since the 1950s. We have them now, but they're not mass produced because they are not practical or efficient.

You also have access to the new Library of Alexandria you stupid cuck pseud. You can learn about the history of mankind, the ideals, the beliefs, the lives of our ancestors. You can learn about the inner-workings of the universe, of the mind.

It's a hundred times worse than I could have imagined. It's all due to cultural Marxism and weakness of degeneracy.

It seems with the way whites reacted to the uk bombings, there was a massive Blackpilling on pol

We're out of our wits. These liberals are beyond insane and literally worship the people that kill and rape they're kids. The jews turned our once glorious civilization into a pile of satanic shit.

There's only 1 solution. David8. Destroy what's remaining of our once beloved west. Accelerationism is the Final redpill

This gif is horrifyingly hypnotic

>14 Feb 2016

Leon was 10 April 2017

Honestly the wold is pretty okay and decently peaceful, its not bad because it can be whole lot worse, buts its not super good either.

We currently have problems that will be sorted out in time and fads that have risen now will die out.

I'm pretty optimistic for the future still, I think self-driving cars would be cool, VR finally being worked on and in 5-10 years being decent enough to use, considering the advances in medicine hopefully in 20 years we have life extension services/rejuvenation medicine to keep people youngish and living for a long time.

>video chat
>high speed internet
>self driving autos

my bar was pretty much set with those few things

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i grew up in the 1970s. i'm almost 70 years old now. i don't want to die knowing that the world is the way it is now. my grandson told me about this website about 2 years ago and i have been reading it ever since. what you guys say sometimes escapes me but from what i gather things aren't looking too good and i'm too old to do anything other than to tell my grandson to stay strong and to love God

I feel like something went wrong around 1996

>i grew up in the 1970s. i'm almost 70 years old now.
Nigga what

>muh hedonism and streaming
Yet our entire culture and society is on the brink of complete nihilistic collapse and we can't even keep our little girls safe. It's objectively worse. Wow, so we can stream the world ending on 4k?

It was going pretty well until all these retarded motherfuckers who went to YouTube University with a major in Sup Forums started thinking they understood econometrics and advanced population geography started gaining traction politically.

i consider my high school and college years my growing-up time

I thought I'd be happier.

Nah, it's pretty gay.

Glad we could be here to throw a wrench in your kike plans

Thats bullshit but I believe it.

tfw born in 96

it's pathetic. you autistic kids are pathetic. music, food, women, movies all worse

Compared to the early nineties:
+ video game graphics are borderline lifelike
+ my internet never lags
+ I can watch any kind of woman engage in any kind of sex act in HD, for free
+ I can eat any kind of food by pressing a button on my tiny portable supercomputer
+ I have access to any and all media, and the media that is rare or that I would never have access to in the past is linked to or suggested by anons all over the world

My childhood self is thrilled, t b h

I feel like something went wrong when all the bankers switched sides in the middle of the Great War to create Israel and the Jews really kicked it up a notch in 2001 and now I'm living in a permanent state of (((democracy))).

Oldfag here. Went to high school in mid-80s, graduated university in late 80s. So many shitskins and spics now. Fags all over the tv. Personally, I think the dumbest thing is the "female warrior/fighter" injected into every goddamn movie or show.

What does Ragnar have to do with Bolshevism?

no one saw the internet coming

it was about flying cars and good infrastructure

cell phones too, really didn't see that happening

well since we have the internet, unlimited porn, unlimited entertainment, and the world bring mostly built of consumerism and materialism at this point, i give the world like 2 more decades before Nihilism and suicides soar and consumer overload happens, and we pretty much just kill each other. unless something changes and we kick the fuck out of globalism, but i really fucking doubt that.

Pepe is a real nigga

94'

I was blindsided by this SJW movement. I never thought it would get this bad. It came out of fucking nowhere.

that meme is literally backwards

I was expecting at least developing space travel. Instead, what I got are large, unwashed masses of brown people ruining everything.

it's interesting how we always look forward to new tech, but our day to day life never really seems to improve or even change. If you told me about wikipedia and realtime internet interaction 20 years ago I would've been psyched about the future, but my life is still the 9 to 5 dogshit my parents had but with expensive phones and depression to boot. I wonder if the same holds true for AR / AI. Will anything ever really change?

I learned to operate powered equipment because I thought we'd have powerloaders from Aliens by now. What went wrong?

video games were abundant and cheap in 1990 (27 years)
Internet was mostly the same as now by 2000 (17 years)
Smartphes same as now by 2007
(10 years)
That other shit was probably cheaper 15 years ago, (((progress)))

this

Kid me would shit himself at how big TVs are and how fancy video games have gotten but wouldn't understand all the globalist fuckery and would just be upset if he did.

>I wonder if the same holds true for AR / AI.
Robowaifus will cure loneliness, maybe even biowaifus with real flesh if we get the tech.

I can't wait for the year 2010!

I thought it would always be night time and raining, and everything would be neon-lit. I'm confused and disappointed.

it didnt live up to my expectations, the world has fallen to complete degeneracy, my company is on the rocks, im in my 30s my fiance left me no kids no family live alone in a house i had to rent cause the recession fucked my credit beyond belief trying to keep my company going so yea fuck this world

The future isn't exactly a disappointment but not that great either.

I grew up hoping Pokemon would be made real through science. I would be an immortal brain in the jar ruling the world with an army of robots.

Thankfully tech advanced to the point that at the very least I can live out my fantasies.
VR this past year has made me significantly more optimistic about my future.

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I was born in 97
I've hated thinking about the future since my first grandparent died in what I think was 06
I feel lonely at night

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What's the point if I'll never be able to have a family that won't be "diversified" with 2 generations max. What point is there? There's no god, the only afterlife is a successful genetic and cultural line, and that has being ruthlessly ripped away from us. All this endless info is pointless if our successors are permanently erased from history.

Double checked

>mid 30s user who still comes here when there are legit happenings.

I honestly feel fortunate that I'm a little bit older, I have an (((arts and sciences))) degree but also went to law school before the huge law school boom so I make okay money. I'm married to a nurse. we do okay but I never thought the left would go so bat shit crazy. the way Clinton and Reid talked about illegals and blacks sounds like "alt right" talk today. I went to a private college and we could openly say non PC things. I remember being in a Russian history class taught by a "Commie for Christ" weirdo and he'd regularly get challenged in class

I'm ready to watch the world burn and dance in the ashes of humanity.

If my expectations scored 100 on average, reality scores between 2 and 5.

We were supposed to reach the stars, reap the dividends of technology and live in a peaceful world.

Instead, the civilization is dying under the double assault of the leftist death cult on one side, and the mohammedan death cult on the other. Technology is consumed with addiction, not with reverence and respect, and we are increasingly dependent on it, to the point where AI is becoming a threat.

Our women, corrupted by the lies of the leftist death cult and longing for the unhinged virility of the mohammedan death cult, commonly act like whores and wage war on the families they're supposed to preserve.

Our men are not much better, 99% oscillating somewhere on a cursed scale between blindness and cowardice. Remnants of comfort, guilt and propaganda have deprived us from the ability to bond and fight together for a common cause. Those who err too far on the blind side actively participate to destroy the civilization they should cherish and protect.

Our elites turn out to be incompetent hedonists mainly interested in the perpetuation of their privileges and indulging in the most disgusting vices at the expense of the civilization they are responsible to preserve.

All of it will most likely end up in a massive genocide that will destroy centuries of patient civilization building and knowledge accumulation our ancestors spilled their blood for.

There are not a lot of reasons to hope. Yet the future is never entirely predictable and we may be surprised once again. Don't hold your breath though.

Born in 1987.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=RScZrvTebeA

I expected a combination of late 1980s cultural values with awesome technology... flying cars, robot maids, impressive clean cities, renewable energy everywhere, hologram communication, hoverboards...cancer would be cured by now. I imagined myself married to my elementary school sweetheart at this point, living in some hi tech house, with the first child on the way, working a cool job like Blade Runner.

Instead I'm living in a filthy city overrun by brown immigrants, in an over-polluted world, working a shitty office job I hate, all alone, no children, while my elementary school sweetheart is married to some faggot normie and the only technological advances we got are shitty cellphones and flat monitors.

Fuck this.

dont' worry you'll die soon.

t. millennial mexican immigrant with us citizenship

93

would you believe me if I told you I had a looming sense of dread that has truly become what i feared only in the last three years?

that I really sensed everything pol complains about would come to a head years before it happened?

9/11 really did it though, but even without it, it was there, although not as strong

2007 is when it all started going to hell

And pocket computers that are as powerful as your home computers were. And social media that has changed your life in one way or another. And instant news. And a mainstream media that is so stong it LITERALLY dominates the social platform of the world. Also, huge global companies that break the backs of the Americans trying to start small businesses. Just a few changes.

Are you literally me?

Except for the fact that I'm stuck in a third world country and I literally have a bullet and a gun to kill myself if I get too sick because I don't want to die in a brazilian public hospital like a rotten piece of meat

no, dirty spic. your fat waste of lard mother will.

>Will probably anhero in the next 5 years of I don't see significant improvement.
Usually when someone says something like this, they dont even make it to their deadline. I suggest you go get vitamin d supplements. I had depression all of my life, you know what cured it? Vitamin d.

We would actually already have flying cars in Ancapistan because there would be incentive to avoid road tolls. Right now roads are overproduced by subsidy so there's no reason to invest in air cars (or reallocate your share of the road funds into something more long term.)

This is why we can't have nice things.

>reddit spacing
>talking like an oldfag (you were 15 in 2007, kek)
cringed. not sure if bait.

Can relate. Was born in 82 and even in the 90s you could smell as a child that something was wrong, that people generally didn't act in a productive, civilized way. It never felt like we were on the rise, rather an earlier, smoother version of the decline that left a looming impression of discomfort as opposed to the sheer and open horror we're increasingly witnessing today.

Early 90s muslim immigration was already a problem in some parts of Europe. Could be more easily ignored or dismissed back then tho.

>PEPE
>FROM REDDIT
wtf, feels bad man

Thanks boomers :o)

Bible says you fall in trap u dig for other.

I love you. Don't give up. Xxoo

Everybody was looting national treasuries and most anti terror surveillance laws are to keep us from poking around and finding out the truth and if you're really in Hong Kong your government is even worse.

Didn't almost all of us starting coming on here as a teen then slowly got stuck here as neets?

>female warrior/fighter
Right? I think the Ranger school experiment. I'm listening to a commercial on tv explaining the pitfalls of a stinky vagina an it's Ph and I don't remember women talking about their vaginal odor and leaks on tv when I was a kid, do you?