Whatever happened to the future? What could be more futuristic than 2007?

Past seers gawped into the glitzy future to envisage a hi-tech world. But how many of them were right?

What could be more futuristic than 2007? But life in the early 21st century tells us otherwise: no flying cars, no dinners in a pill, and certainly no cool rocketing off to space cities in the required outfit of the future (shaved heads and Bacofoil jumpsuits).