But look around where is my jet pack and all that nifty neato stuff. Our world today looks somewhat like the world of the fifties. The only thing that we have that is close to that vision of the future is the Internet. But, according to the aforementioned authors , we should have all of the Internet plugged into a watch, if not directly into our brains.

So what happened? Who's to blame. I think the fault lies directly on our leaders. Just think of all the diseases that could have been cured, the space travel that could have been accomplished, the advances that could have been made if only our leaders spent money on the future instead of weapons.

USA and the USSR spent untold trillions of dollars on the Cold War. They might as well taken that money and pissed it down a well for all the good it did. Meanwhile during the Cold War millions of people were starving, dying of disease and problems that should have been solved were just left to fester.

Granted we have made some strides in space exploration but that was only a side aspect of the Cold War. Now that it is over the world's space programs are languishing or being take over by commercial concerns as opposed to pure space exploration.

And don't think I am letting the non-superpower countries off the hook. How much money has been spent on wars over who worships God correctly, I want your miserable piece of land because you were born of the wrong parents, and last but not least, greed.

The solution to this problem I honestly don't know but I have a fun idea. Go to a used book store and buy a really good, far out, futurist novel from the fifties. Package that sucker up and send it to your least favorite leader with a note that says: