From Jules Verne to Stanley Kubrick and beyond, writers and artists have imagined what the future would be like. Their visions range from the comically bizarre to the uncannily accurate to the wildly optimistic (where are those jet packs they promised us?!). Here's a quick collection of our favorite examples.
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Jetpacks, Androids, and the Future That Never Came
Dude, where's my flying car?! We look at 11 venerated visions of future technology that totally missed the mark.
Visions of the Future From the Past
Monsanto House of the Future
Time Machine
2001 Space Travel
The Jetsons
Forbidden Planet's Robby the Robot
Flash Gordon
Rick Deckard's Los Angeles
UFO: A Classic Overestimation
Total Recall's Airport X-Ray
Back to the Future II Hoverboard
Fifth Element Taxis
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