This is quite possibly the greatest Cracked article ever written:
6 Technologies Conspicuously Absent from Sci-Fi Movies | Cracked.com
Money quote: "What's the point of being in the future if you can't have robots murder backwater natives for you?"
6 Technologies Conspicuously Absent from Sci-Fi Movies | Cracked.com
Money quote: "What's the point of being in the future if you can't have robots murder backwater natives for you?"