A possible Future?

WALL-E had auto, an autopilot that looks a lot like HAL 9000 from the movie 2001. In the 60's people thought that the year 2000 was a time of flying cars and men on mars. However, as we see, things are not as technological as we would expect. There are no artifical intelligence supercomputers like HAL. The cars do not fly, and there is no moon base.

It is as if we somehow lost our way, but what if on another timeline we keep moving forward? Is the future of the movie 2001 possible? I believe that it is. Just because we dropped the ball don't mean that others are as dumb.

It is my belief that on other timelines we did develop new technology far ahead of what we have here. This technology might enable them to have fusion, replicators, teleporters, and yes even flying cars.