Jetpacks, androids, and the future that never came

Dude, where's my flying car?! We look at 11 venerated visions of future technology that totally missed the mark.

Time Machine



H.G. Wells's dark 1895 novel about a Victorian-era scientist's journey into a dystopian future first made the transition to film in 1960 (though a British version videotaped for television appeared in 1949), with Rod Taylor playing a time-traveling academic named "H. George Wells." Director George Pal's vision of the clock-confounding machine seems remarkably low-tech: It looks like a stripped-down Santa's sleigh with a satellite dish mounted on the back--and not even a windshield to protect the traveler from collisions with time-warping bugs

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