Top 18+ Predictions People Had for the Future That Never Came True

#1: Flying Cars, #3: Teleportation, #4: Moving Sidewalk Cities, #6: Fully Automated Smart Homes, #7: Conscious AI with Human Emotions, #9: Colonizing the Moon, #10: Regular Space Tourism, #12: The Internet Will Be a Passing Fad, #13: TVs Will Be Replaced by Smell-O-Vision, #15: Humans Will Have Computer Chips in Their Brains, #16: Time Travel Would Be Invented, #18: Everyone Would Eat Food in Pill Form

From flying cars to holographic phone calls and robot maids, people have made many predictions over the years as to what the future might have in store for us. While humanity has come a long way in terms of technological achievements, we’re nowhere near where we thought we’d be by now. Here are some predictions people have made about the future that have not yet come true. Will they ever? Only time will tell.

#1: Flying Cars

#1: Flying Cars, #3: Teleportation, #4: Moving Sidewalk Cities, #6: Fully Automated Smart Homes, #7: Conscious AI with Human Emotions, #9: Colonizing the Moon, #10: Regular Space Tourism, #12: The Internet Will Be a Passing Fad, #13: TVs Will Be Replaced by Smell-O-Vision, #15: Humans Will Have Computer Chips in Their Brains, #16: Time Travel Would Be Invented, #18: Everyone Would Eat Food in Pill Form

Flying cars were one of the biggest predictions about the future. In the past, whenever people would think about the future, they would think of flying cars. From the 1950s to the 1980s, people were convinced (and hopeful) that in the future, we would have flying cars that allow us to avoid those nagging traffic jams on our way to work in the morning. However, it hasn’t happened yet, and this idea seems more and more complicated the closer we get to it.

#3: Teleportation

#1: Flying Cars, #3: Teleportation, #4: Moving Sidewalk Cities, #6: Fully Automated Smart Homes, #7: Conscious AI with Human Emotions, #9: Colonizing the Moon, #10: Regular Space Tourism, #12: The Internet Will Be a Passing Fad, #13: TVs Will Be Replaced by Smell-O-Vision, #15: Humans Will Have Computer Chips in Their Brains, #16: Time Travel Would Be Invented, #18: Everyone Would Eat Food in Pill Form

Sci-fi movies made people believe that by the 21st Century, people would be able to commute via teleportation. That means you can transport from one place to another without physical travel. That would be a dream, wouldn’t it? But the thing is, it’s not as easy as movies make it out to be – and in reality, physics don’t actually allow teleportation.

#4: Moving Sidewalk Cities

#1: Flying Cars, #3: Teleportation, #4: Moving Sidewalk Cities, #6: Fully Automated Smart Homes, #7: Conscious AI with Human Emotions, #9: Colonizing the Moon, #10: Regular Space Tourism, #12: The Internet Will Be a Passing Fad, #13: TVs Will Be Replaced by Smell-O-Vision, #15: Humans Will Have Computer Chips in Their Brains, #16: Time Travel Would Be Invented, #18: Everyone Would Eat Food in Pill Form

People have always fantasized about easy solutions that would eliminate our need to walk. Whether it’s flying cars, teleportation, or personal jetpacks, people hoped that in the future, people wouldn’t have to walk anywhere at all. Another prediction was moving city sidewalks – like the walkways they have at airports, but spread across the city.

#6: Fully Automated Smart Homes

#1: Flying Cars, #3: Teleportation, #4: Moving Sidewalk Cities, #6: Fully Automated Smart Homes, #7: Conscious AI with Human Emotions, #9: Colonizing the Moon, #10: Regular Space Tourism, #12: The Internet Will Be a Passing Fad, #13: TVs Will Be Replaced by Smell-O-Vision, #15: Humans Will Have Computer Chips in Their Brains, #16: Time Travel Would Be Invented, #18: Everyone Would Eat Food in Pill Form

While we do have some household AI systems today, it’s nearly where people predicted it’d be by 2025. Back in the 80s and 90s, people thought that in the future, houses would run entirely on AI systems doing all the house chores, including cooking and cleaning. Maybe in twenty years from now?

#7: Conscious AI with Human Emotions

#1: Flying Cars, #3: Teleportation, #4: Moving Sidewalk Cities, #6: Fully Automated Smart Homes, #7: Conscious AI with Human Emotions, #9: Colonizing the Moon, #10: Regular Space Tourism, #12: The Internet Will Be a Passing Fad, #13: TVs Will Be Replaced by Smell-O-Vision, #15: Humans Will Have Computer Chips in Their Brains, #16: Time Travel Would Be Invented, #18: Everyone Would Eat Food in Pill Form

Have you seen the 2013 movie Her starring Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson? In the movie, a man develops an emotional relationship and falls in love with an AI operating system personified as a female character. Well, that’s what people predicted the future would look like; people connecting with AI systems that possess human-like personalities and emotions. Honestly, we’re happy AI technology isn’t that advanced yet.

#9: Colonizing the Moon

#1: Flying Cars, #3: Teleportation, #4: Moving Sidewalk Cities, #6: Fully Automated Smart Homes, #7: Conscious AI with Human Emotions, #9: Colonizing the Moon, #10: Regular Space Tourism, #12: The Internet Will Be a Passing Fad, #13: TVs Will Be Replaced by Smell-O-Vision, #15: Humans Will Have Computer Chips in Their Brains, #16: Time Travel Would Be Invented, #18: Everyone Would Eat Food in Pill Form

After the historic Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969, people were hopeful and optimistic about the future, thinking that by the 21st Century, humans would be able to establish colonies on the moon and live there. Of course, this prediction was unrealistic for many reasons, although our space search is constantly evolving. We’re also not sure there’s any real demand for living on the moon. If moon colonies were a thing, would you go?

#10: Regular Space Tourism

#1: Flying Cars, #3: Teleportation, #4: Moving Sidewalk Cities, #6: Fully Automated Smart Homes, #7: Conscious AI with Human Emotions, #9: Colonizing the Moon, #10: Regular Space Tourism, #12: The Internet Will Be a Passing Fad, #13: TVs Will Be Replaced by Smell-O-Vision, #15: Humans Will Have Computer Chips in Their Brains, #16: Time Travel Would Be Invented, #18: Everyone Would Eat Food in Pill Form

Similar to the moon colonies prediction, following the first successful mission to the moon in 1969, people predicted that in the future, we’d have regular space tourism. They figured that by 2025, traveling to space would be as normal as traveling to Europe. Of course, space travel is still not possible for the average person, as it’s too expensive, uncertain, and dangerous.

#12: The Internet Will Be a Passing Fad

#1: Flying Cars, #3: Teleportation, #4: Moving Sidewalk Cities, #6: Fully Automated Smart Homes, #7: Conscious AI with Human Emotions, #9: Colonizing the Moon, #10: Regular Space Tourism, #12: The Internet Will Be a Passing Fad, #13: TVs Will Be Replaced by Smell-O-Vision, #15: Humans Will Have Computer Chips in Their Brains, #16: Time Travel Would Be Invented, #18: Everyone Would Eat Food in Pill Form

In the 80s and 90s, the Internet was emerging as a new and exciting thing, and like all new and exciting things, some people considered it a novelty or a passing fad. People found it hard to believe it would ever completely replace traditional business models. Today, we know how wrong those people were, as the Internet ultimately changed every aspect of our lives, from business to shopping, inter-personal communication and entertainment.

#13: TVs Will Be Replaced by Smell-O-Vision

#1: Flying Cars, #3: Teleportation, #4: Moving Sidewalk Cities, #6: Fully Automated Smart Homes, #7: Conscious AI with Human Emotions, #9: Colonizing the Moon, #10: Regular Space Tourism, #12: The Internet Will Be a Passing Fad, #13: TVs Will Be Replaced by Smell-O-Vision, #15: Humans Will Have Computer Chips in Their Brains, #16: Time Travel Would Be Invented, #18: Everyone Would Eat Food in Pill Form

The Smell-O-Vision was a system that released odors during the projection of a movie so that the audience could smell what was going on in the movie. This technique made its first appearance in the 60s movie Scent of Mystery, making people believe that in the future, all movies would feature this technology, making the movie experience more immersive.

#15: Humans Will Have Computer Chips in Their Brains

#1: Flying Cars, #3: Teleportation, #4: Moving Sidewalk Cities, #6: Fully Automated Smart Homes, #7: Conscious AI with Human Emotions, #9: Colonizing the Moon, #10: Regular Space Tourism, #12: The Internet Will Be a Passing Fad, #13: TVs Will Be Replaced by Smell-O-Vision, #15: Humans Will Have Computer Chips in Their Brains, #16: Time Travel Would Be Invented, #18: Everyone Would Eat Food in Pill Form

Movies and scientific advancements have led us to believe that in the future, people will have computer chips in their brains, allowing them to communicate or access instant information mentally. It didn’t happen yet, and we really hope it never will. We’re not sure anyone wants to go through surgery and sacrifice their privacy just to be able to check their emails mentally.

#16: Time Travel Would Be Invented

#1: Flying Cars, #3: Teleportation, #4: Moving Sidewalk Cities, #6: Fully Automated Smart Homes, #7: Conscious AI with Human Emotions, #9: Colonizing the Moon, #10: Regular Space Tourism, #12: The Internet Will Be a Passing Fad, #13: TVs Will Be Replaced by Smell-O-Vision, #15: Humans Will Have Computer Chips in Their Brains, #16: Time Travel Would Be Invented, #18: Everyone Would Eat Food in Pill Form

Back to the Future opened our minds to the idea of time travel and somehow made it seem possible. If Doc Brown can make it happen, why can’t we? Of course, it wasn’t the first or only movie to depict time travel, and with every appearance of this concept in pop culture, it made it seem more real. Some people actually believed it would be a thing by the 2000s. Of course, it’s full of scientific holes and a purely theoretical concept.

#18: Everyone Would Eat Food in Pill Form

#1: Flying Cars, #3: Teleportation, #4: Moving Sidewalk Cities, #6: Fully Automated Smart Homes, #7: Conscious AI with Human Emotions, #9: Colonizing the Moon, #10: Regular Space Tourism, #12: The Internet Will Be a Passing Fad, #13: TVs Will Be Replaced by Smell-O-Vision, #15: Humans Will Have Computer Chips in Their Brains, #16: Time Travel Would Be Invented, #18: Everyone Would Eat Food in Pill Form

Another weird prediction that for some reason seemed possible in the past was that in the future, we’d no longer eat actual food but consume our food and nutrients in pill form. This idea was predicted sometime between the 1930s and 1960s and even featured in sci-fi books and movies. The thing is, no one wants to have their entire meals compressed into a tablet. We still enjoy eating ice cream, burgers, tacos, and different foods with different flavors and textures.

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