‘What’s one thing that was hyped as ‘the long run’ 10 years in the past that you simply barely hear about now?’ – 17 devices and gizmos that by no means actually took off

As the outdated saying goes, the long run ain’t what it was once. Time was, we had been promised flying vehicles and bases on the Moon. Sadly, issues haven’t labored out that approach.

Where did all of it go awry although? How had been we robbed when it got here to developments? To discover out, CottonCandyCloud9 turned to r/AskReddit and posed the next query to fellow customers:

‘What’s one thing that was hyped as ‘the future’ 10 years in the past that you simply barely hear about now?’

Here are the highest guarantees that 2016 didn’t ship…

1.

‘Nonstandard top-level domains. I honestly expected that websites ending in .bank, .music, and .movie would become commonplace, but it’s nonetheless .com all over the place.’
-ehsteve87

2.

‘Not quite 10 years ago but the Metaverse was a massive swing and a miss for big tech.’
-Leading_Advantage417

3.

‘I’m nonetheless ready for when all common ice cream is changed by dippin dots’
-MoreCerealPlease

4.

‘Hydrogen powered cars.’
-bwinkl04

5.

‘I remember when 3D TVs were pushed as the next big thing in every home. My cousin bought one and the glasses just collected dust after a few weeks because finding actual content was a hassle and it gave people headaches.’
-Fernando-1594

6.

‘Hyperloop’
-SpeedBlitzX

7.

‘Google Glass. In 2016 they made us believe we’d all be sporting them by now.’
-Loemwer-Mix-501

8.

‘The fully connected smart home. Ten years ago every appliance was supposed to talk to every other appliance; now most people just want the light switch to work when the Wi-Fi doesn’t.’
-Level-Historian6435

9.

‘Maybe a little longer than 10 years, but the Segway was going to be the “transportation of the future.”’
-N4BFR