Every now and then when you're struggling to navigate your new TV remote control, postponing updating your phone's operating system, and considering the purchase of a vacuum cleaner that runs around your floors on its own, it's fun to think about the technology we DON'T have to deal with.

For your enjoyment, here's an article with attitude that runs through 20 bright technological ideas that were predicted to transform our world but haven't and never will. And the writer Ari Notis of bestlifeonline.com shares a scepticism many of us have - that while many technological advances are supremely beneficial, some are...well...unnecessary and ridiculous.

Some past far-out ideas are not easily abandoned - such as the flying car (proposed way back in the time of the Jetsons on TV). A flying car prototype has recently been revealed by automaker PAL-V that supposedly will hit the market in 2019 and retail for $621,500. Sign us up! On second thought, our freeways are reckless enough without putting those drivers up in the sky.

Another idea made popular on TV and in the movies is some kind of cloak that renders its wearer invisible. According to the article on bestlifeonline.com, Russia's Future Research Fund allegedly worked on developing a substance that could achieve invisibility. We haven't seen any sign of that, but then of course, we wouldn't, would we, since it would be invisible.

Since we can't yet make humans invisible, how about shrinking them? Nope. Or beaming them from one place to another? Hasn't happened.

The article takes you through 20 improbable ideas like that and gives the scientific explanation for why they WON'T happen. 

While being sceptical is sometimes a good thing - so is being open-minded. So now that you've seen what WON'T happen, take a look back at what HAS: The 20 greatest inventions of all time, according to thinkbig.com.

And in the name of fun, let's look at some seemingly crazy ideas and inventions that are likely to come in the next century, if not sooner. Here's to hoping we're around to experience them! 

By 2045, people 60 and older will offically outnumber people 15 and younger and for the first time ever, hospitals will use robots to reduce staffing issues.

Vaccines will help our bodies shut down drug molecules before they ever get to the brain, and in effect, "cure" drug addiction. Believe it or not, this is already working in mice and human trials have begun.

Perhaps you've heard of megabytes and gigabytes? Well, data will soon be measured in "zettabytes". For your reference, if each Gigabyte in a Zettabyte were a single brick, we could build 258 Great Walls of China!

And finally, at some point within the next 100 years, the very last gasoline powered car should, by most accounts, come off the assembly line.