The "Future" in Entertainment

It is fairly entertaining to go back and watch old cartoons and movies attempting to predict what the future would be like. Surprisingly Back to the Future was pretty darn accurate in most of their predictions. Minus the Cubs winning the world series 5-0, which isn't even possible... But that's beside the point. Also the clothes and hover boards were wishful thinking but also silly. However their depiction of the technology we would have in 2015 was pretty good. Also in Star Trek. They rightfully depicted that we would have voice recognition software in the near future, and touch screen devices, wireless headsets and more. Comical representations are shown in the Jetsons, where they believed that robots would b everywhere and we would be driving flying cars and live in floating houses. man they had high expectations. I can't imagine the amount of technology that we would still need to develop to make that dream a reality. For one floating houses are pretty useless and would require a ton of energy making them impractical, unless there wasn't any land anymore. Flying cars would be pretty nifty in the sense that they would eliminate the need for roads and finding a parking space. One could merely tell it to hover and whenever you were finished with what you were doing call it over to pick you up. Dang that sounds complicated. Robots are pretty much just modified slaves, in the sense that they don't have feelings which is kind of screwy. I wonder if the reliance of robots would lead to the classic movie style outcome of a rebellion. Like in AstroBoy or iRobot, or Terminator. Maybe Terminator is too weak of a comparison but I think you get the basis of the relying on technology too much will lead to societies downfall type story.