the.com/future technology
the stuff that makes today's gadgets look like cave paintings, eventually.
means technology that doesn't exist yet or has barely arrived, promising to make the present obsolete on schedule.
from the phrase has floated since the industrial revolution, but it really took off with 20th-century science fiction, where writers imagined tomorrow so vividly that engineers spent decades just trying to catch up.
jetpacks statuspromised since 1960s, still impractical and dangerous.
flying carsexist, cost millions, mostly unregulated.
sci-fi accuracypredicted tablets, communicators decades before real ones.
moore's lawchips doubling power roughly every two years, slowing now.