Even in the Future Everything's Broken

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i was wondering about the glorious tech filled future that we were willfully led to believe by popular culture.  Where is fully functional hoverboard, my Space Needle like house/apartment, my robot maid, etc.  Humans cannot even travel outside of the solar system yet (in any timely manner).   Where is the post apocalyptic annihilation of Earth that necessitates outer space colonization.

Take The Jetsons....  in the future we were supposed to have flying cars that could fold up to be the size of a briefcase.  We don't even have meal pellets yet (as far as i'm aware) or robot maid.  We don't even have odd creatures like Orbity or dogs with speech impediments.  Where are out treadmills on the outside of our domicile (suspended at least 20 feet off of the ground).  Weren't future jobs supposed to be the mundane task of pushing a button - and trying not to get fired every other week.  i guess they kind of underestimated population, the Jetsons seemed to live in a sparsely populated environment.  There aren't space colonies yet, i can't go to Las Venus.   One of the things i miss most is 3D holographic 3D televisions that the Jetsons had, you didn't even have to wear annoying glasses to fool your eyes into thinking it may be 3D.     

Now take Back to the Future series...  we can't even go to the local 7-11 to pick up plutonium, yet.  Where are our Flux Capacitors?  Where is almost everything seen in II?  We don't have hoverboards (or even Scooty Puff Jrs) or cafes operated by computers.  They seriously overstated what computer AIs are capable of.  We don't even have devices that tell us it will rain in one minute for 10 seconds.  We still have to rely on weathermen who can't successfully predict snow over 50% of the time. 

Galaxies a long time ago and far, far away seem to have better technology.  Where is my plasma sword or saber made of light.  i don't have access to any form of transportation that can make the Kessel run (or equivalent thereof), let alone in 10 parsecs.  There aren't even any flying RVs or military ships with bumper stickers saying "i brake for no one".