Those of you who have followed us for a while will recognize that we one of our greatest passions is maintaining awareness of the fact that we are still living without so many of the wonders promised us in our youth - summed up perfectly in the idea of the flying car. We almost admire the poor bastards alive in the fifties who looked forward to a glorious future of cities on the moon, food capsules for dinner, you get the idea. All lies. Well, turns out we're not alone. Our kindred spirits at Gizmodo outline author Paul Milo's book Your Flying Car Awaits, which catalogues the shattered dreams of a generation. On flying cars:
For futurists, this one's an oldie but a goodie. By 1909, forecasters believed that soon, someone would combine, like peanut butter and jelly, the newfangled airplane to the equally cutting-edge automobile. For a century the flying car has been one of those perennially just-around-the-corner innovations, and while work continues on a viable prototype, don't expect to see your Honda become airborne anytime soon. Although NASA has done some work on creating a "sky highway," an electronic corridor in the sky to be used by pilots of small craft, the effort is still at a very preliminary stage.
Yeah. If there's anyone we can look toward to fulfill our visions of the future, it's the people who are shutting down our entire space shuttle fleet. That's the kind of forward-thinking that's going to bring us places. Like to Russia, to ask them if we can have a ride to the space station, you know, whenever they get a chance. Christ. Now if you'll excuse us, we have a book to buy from Amazon.
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