I thought we'd be the Jetsons by now

The 2005 model year cars are now appearing in showrooms. MSN has the pics. Yeah, a lot of them are impressive. That Aston Martin DB9 is pretty phat. I wouldn't mind owning that Lotus Elise (not in yellow though). And even that Mini convertible would be fun to drive, just as long as my friends don't catch me.

Admittedly though I can't help but be disappointed. Growing up, I thought for sure by now we'd all be flying around in hovercrafts, like in Fifth Element. Unfortunately, we're still all driving around in the same old automobiles with their boring internal combustion engines. How cliche? Where's the development?

By 2000, I thought: hovercrafts, meals in pill form, and at a base minimum, a cure for male pattern baldness. But nothing. Not one these. What happened? I'll tell you what happened. The Internet came. Oh, yeah, it's a godsend. The Information Superhighway, able to reach everyone and everybody by the click of a button.

Where has that landed us? Now, every pervert the world over can access the Internet to download the latest digitally enhanced child snuff film. Or the anarchist in Bangladesh can communicate with his degenerate brethren in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, to coordinate a terrorist attack. Fantastic.

Some may argue that we've regressed. Instead of taking the road less traveled and creating things, the majority of humans opt for destruction or sexual gratification by default.

I want my hovercrafts! Gosh darn it. Now who's going to build me one?