It's 2008.
We have alternative fuels, communication devices that can fit into a pocket, we can receive vast ammounts of information at the push of a button, we have remote control robots on the battlefield, robots that clean our floors, realistic sex dolls, we can go to any general store and buy a laser, a freaking LASER, yet somehow, someway we have let slip through our fingers the single most important science fiction concept of all time. Vampire Slayers, there is a severe lack of blonde girls in catholic school girl uniforms kicking undead ass in the middle of the night.