Its funny listening to everyone talk about the future. When I was younger the 2000s was supposed to be the future LOL
I was born in 1970, and yeah, the media often talked about the year 2000 as if it was some magical year, in which we're suddenly drenched in new inventions all over the place.
But just think about how fast computer technology for example developed.
If you compare the desktop computers of today to those of the early 80ies, OMG ... in the 80ies, only the fastest super computers were a match for the computers we have today, on the desktop ... and sometimes not even that ...
In the 80ies, most people weren't using computers ... even after the Amiga had arrived, many people associated computers with green text on black background.
Nowadays almost everyone uses computers, in a cell phone at least, or a video game console, or some other thing ... offices almost don't use paper forms anymore, and in office, the PC is everywhere now ... and there's a PC in almost every home.
I still remember Jack Tramiel (the boss of Commodore in the early 80ies) saying he wants to bring a computer into every home. But what really fueled that development was the web. In the mid-90ies, the number of computer users exploded.
So, technology adoption takes time and/or specific technologic breakthroughs or events.
Take the car, for instance, around 1890, cars were pretty rare and a curiosity ... only after Ford invented the mass production of cars with his model T, car purchases went up.
Hell, in the 1970ies, even, computers were often custom-made, there were companies all over the place that designed custom computers for customers. After the mass production of computers began in the late 70ies and early 80ies, most of these companies disappeared.
Speaking of future and flying cars..This is new model. The new one is supposed to be released for sell soon
The future LOL
The car doesn't look like something that would be allowed on the road. Only if it can fold its wings in and can withstand crash tests and such, would it be allowed on the road. It looks like a poor design to me.
This looks more like a flying car to me:
Moller
Flying cars will come too, one day, but if we will live to see it happen, is another question.
