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"It is the year 2000. But where are the flying cars? I was promised flying cars. I don't see any flying cars. Why? Why?" (lemmy.ml)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40641106

In 2000 Avery Brooks did some television commercials for IBM:

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[-] DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago

This legit hits hard, even today.

We are waaaay the fuck in the future, scifi-wise. It's about to be 20-fucking-26. I was promised so many awesome things.

"Best I can do is AI that writes music and paints and writes novels for you, you know, all the stuff humans consider fun"

Fuck it, just have AI play our video games and watch our movies for us so we have more time to do dishes and laundry. IT'S THE FUTURE. I SHOULDN'T BE DOING DISHES OR LAUNDRY. What are we even doing here?

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

IT’S THE FUTURE. I SHOULDN’T BE DOING DISHES OR LAUNDRY.

WASHING MACHINES EXIST

JFC, it's the flying car problem. We have flying cars, they're called helicopters.

[-] DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago

How come everyone on lemmy thinks after you put your dirty clothes in the washing machine that the machine magically folds your clothes and puts them away?

Tell me you don't wash your own clothes without telling me you don't wash your own clothes.

Holla at me when there's an AI clothes robot.

[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Holla at me when there’s an AI clothes robot.

It's a hard problem, but some of the scientists of all time are working on it:

NPR timelapse gif animation from 2015 of BRETT the "Berkeley Robot for the Elimination of Tedious Tasks" taking 10 minutes to fold a towel

It took a decade for FoldiMate to admit defeat and declare bankruptcy, but Laundroid accomplished the same task in only four years - so, soon, we could have robotics companies able to give up in under a year!

[-] data1701d@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago

I just realized that this may be better than Frakes asking you questions. That is an epiphany.

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