We reached the future

We reached the future.

At least, the time science fiction speaks about.

Many things that were predicted never happened: there are no flying cars--flying is still expensive, only the rich own a helicopter, and planes have evolved but work almost the same.

There are no robots that want to replace their metal parts with real organs. Robots have not replaced humans, and most of them are simply sophisticated computers; there are no evil androids--nor replicants--planning to destroy life on earth; computers cannot make importante decisions--like killing the crew of a spaceship, for example--without human beings they are just stupid machines.

There are lots of cameras watching us everyday, everywhere, but no big brother--although some dictators have tried to be like George Orwell's.

Planets with living beings have not yet been discovered--as far as today, humans are the only intelligent species in the whole universe; there are no space stations on Mars, nor interplanetary trips, nor tele-transportation, nor star wars, nor ETs; there are more satellites, and some space stations used for scientific projects--some rich tycoons do make trips there, though.

Nuclear wars, climate change, armaggedon, or the apocalipsis riders have not finished with life on earth; we have managed to survive famine, wars, dictatorships, pollution, climate change, global infections, web blackouts, hackers, pornography, the war on drugs, the rise of criminality, democracy, communism, and capitalism.

We still have lots of animals and flora--no need for robotic pets; we still eat much the same--industrial foods, farm edibles, fast food, meat, etc.--but not capsules.

There are no test-tube babies, and most are born the same way: from their mom's belly, and are raised in a regular family--although monoparental, gay, and even transexual families are more common nowadays; people get married, and divorced almost at the same rate as in the past.

Jails are packed with criminals, but the worst criminals live almost normal lives, without ever being prosecuted, as usual...

We reached the future, but not the future foreseen by those great SF authors that I love to read: Jules Verne, Ray Bradbury, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Isaac Assimov, and many more.