Flying Cars when will it happen
Ain't 'a gonna happen, ever. Thank God
Since sometime in the 30's magazines like Popular Science and others have "predicted" how "we" are "going" to live in 10, 20, 50 years. Long long ago, according to these "experts" "we"........................
would be living in all plastic houses
would drive cars with plastic bubbles, controlled by joysticks, or even.......gasp.....completely automated
I can still remember an "artist's conception" around the end of WWII of a suburbia paradise, the "old man" going to work, stepping out of the house with pipe in mouth, morning in paper under-arm, and like the other 50 ticky-tacky houses in the neighborhood, was about to board the tiny 2 place private plane IN THE driveway and fly leisurely off to work.
If you want to see how this would work,
1 Make your way to LA or Seattle, or any other large city
2 Go up into the tallest building you can imagine
3 Watch the mess of traffic below, only pretend that you are looking UP at tiny private airplanes. Is this REALLY what we want????
Right here:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/these-are-the-planes-youll-fly-after-the-war/
Popular Science and "how we would live:" It ain't happened yet
Ain't 'a gonna happen, ever. Thank God
Since sometime in the 30's magazines like Popular Science and others have "predicted" how "we" are "going" to live in 10, 20, 50 years. Long long ago, according to these "experts" "we"........................
would be living in all plastic houses
would drive cars with plastic bubbles, controlled by joysticks, or even.......gasp.....completely automated
I can still remember an "artist's conception" around the end of WWII of a suburbia paradise, the "old man" going to work, stepping out of the house with pipe in mouth, morning in paper under-arm, and like the other 50 ticky-tacky houses in the neighborhood, was about to board the tiny 2 place private plane IN THE driveway and fly leisurely off to work.
If you want to see how this would work,
1 Make your way to LA or Seattle, or any other large city
2 Go up into the tallest building you can imagine
3 Watch the mess of traffic below, only pretend that you are looking UP at tiny private airplanes. Is this REALLY what we want????
Right here:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/these-are-the-planes-youll-fly-after-the-war/
Popular Science and "how we would live:" It ain't happened yet
