What other futuristic ideas popularised by science fiction, will be ruined by their implementation in reality?

The problem with most science fiction is that they either A) didn’t consider how costly this technology would be or B) thought the corporations who could fund it would be benevolent.

Minority Report and A.I. Artificial Intelligence did a good job of exploring the greed and seediness connected with these futuristic ideas.

An emergency holographic doctor would remove the human touch.

I tend to think that Sci-fi has too negative of an outlook on average. I’m optimistic that the positive Star Trek future is where this will end up. A.I. does scare me a little. Virtual Worlds though, that’s going to be where we live, and soon. It will be good. Perhaps too good, like it could be an answer to the fermi paradox.

Futurerisitc ideas..are happening now with all those implants ( Breast, derriere,lips enhancements etc) .
Even more into the future a persons body would become so enhanceed tht the percentage of the original person would be lost almost robotic or close to it.
Some idealistic model to emulate is unrealistic.

Good point. I think you see the danger of the Metaverse and all the other mindgames being hyped. But the fact is it may be too late for most consumers to object, or even comprehend.

When you’re already a Zuckerzombie, a Muskmonkey, or a Googlebot reality is the enemy. Noboby wants to live their life entirely offline anymore, and some people don’t even know where the web stops and their true selves begin. The algorythms and data harvesting that are the basic architectecture of almost all social media are by design intended to be addictive & isolating.

Users are conditioned and programmed to sell themselves. The technology and the money have been moving in this direction for over 10 years, and we’ve all played along.

And the proof is right here: Ask how many jellies would be willing to give up facebook, or cancel their twitter or instagram – Zero.

See ya in the clone lab…

Flying cars.

We have more than enough accidents with drivers trying to deal with two dimensions: usually they don’t have to concern themselves with cars underneath or above them.

Amost everything in sci-fi will be ruined in reality.

Two major reasons:

a) money. Authors write sci-fi stories and novels with an eye towards technology and having it do cool things. But in reality, any brilliant science fiction advancement would (a) need to be defined and built, which takes research money and manufacturing, and (b) somehow each of the advancements would need to be paid for – by someone or something – in order to operate. This means that trade-offs would need to be made for all sorts of economic reasons.

b) details – sort of related to the above. Sci=fi gizmos look great in the movies, but there are a zillion issues—materials, manufacturing, software, pantents, specifications, and so on, that need to fall into place. Software doesn;‘t write itself.

The idea of whizzing about space in little metal “ships” and establishing empires among the stars isn’t going to happen. Space is just too vast and too hostile to ever be colonised. The Apollo moon missions of fifty years ago demonstrated how risky and impractical the reality of space travel is. I loved reading science fiction and regret its impracticality as much as the next person but, with regret, it is more fiction than science.

Assuming that it will come true if shown in science fiction. Like time travel.

High tech godhood.

@Brian1946 That is exactly what I was going to say. I imagine it would be something like the Fifth Element but much, much worse.