Sheesh give it some time! The year just started & already people are going nuts looking for there flying cars. There is still the entire year yet. Don't panic about the absence of your flying cars until the eve of 2002 when it's clear you've been ripped-off.
Hehehe... over here, someone came up with the interesting idea of showing Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey on the first day of the new year .
...It made for a wonderful, wonderful laugh. I suppose it's a shame, in a way - it's kinda disturbing to think of something created by Clarke as pathetic . Yet, it is, now.
hehe i was watching discovery on day, and it was about that new space shuttle thingy, the X33 or something, well anyway, it's gonna replace the space shuttle in 1999...Yep...
Another note... the space hotel and moonbase scenes in 2001 took place in 1999 -- we should have been complaining then
2010 was okay -- it was fun, not a great work... 2061 was a neat little sci fi story, but not particularly notable. 3001 was the worst book ever printed, bar none.