The Professor Does Admit That There Still Seem To Be No Flying Cars

[liddle_oldman]

I was heading back to the house, after dropping off Mrs. Professor, to gather and commence the laundries, and I stopped at the diner in Auburndale to have a bite of breakfast and wait for the traffic to subside a bit

Comments

It's not all electronic

[old_blevins]

I have managed, with great effort and not a little asperity, to convince the young people that work for me that I managed to get an education without a computer, cell phone or X-box. I even managed to convince them that before the internet people researched using books. But I can't convince them that there was life before Highlighters and Postit notes.
Incidentally, cars used to fly but they stopped when my brother gave up driving.

[aethera21]

I remember reading Contact magazine as a small child (in the mid-late '80s), and they predicted flying cars in 2008 based on then-current prototypes. I remember thinking to myself: "I have to wait until I'm 27 to fly a car? That's not fair, I get my license at 17!"

[miss_prissy]

Like I want those maniacs on the road airborne!

[killiara]

GAH.
No.
No flying cars.
Good gad, traffic in 2-D is bad enough, imagine a mid-air collision at 300 feet, crushing buildings below.

[bill_sheehan]

And the Seventies flash and the Eighties bang
And the Nineties whimper and the century hangs
Robots working the cotton field
Vacations on Venus just a tourist deal
Fornication on tape, instant happiness
While we keep on dancing, dancing, we can't rest...

(Jacques Brel, translated by Mort Schuman and Eric Blau)