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Flying Cars...
May. 1st, 2007 10:09 pm...The future is always depicted with flying cars. The Jetsons had them, Back to the Future had them, Bicentennial Man had them, and even Doctor Who has them. That's like, forty-odd years of being promised flying cars, and I can't help noticing that it's the way-cool futuristic year of 2007 and I still do not have a flying car.
Who is to blame for this? The tire makers, perhaps? Maybe its the road construction people. Maybe they've all banded together to form a secret society whose sole purpose is to hold back the development of flying cars so they can continue to line their pockets. We don't have flying cars for the same reason we don't have water-powered cars; there's too much money to be made from their absence.
Though, now I can't help thinking that all this expectation will lead to a very disappointing experience once we do have flying cars. We'll still need traffic lanes, and there will still have to be speed limits and other kinds of safety regulations, plus with the added dangers of flying. Looking at it that way, I'm glad we don't have flying cars, because it doesn't look like it will be very cool at all. In fact, it would probably just complicate and stress things more.
So, if the tire and road construction people have banded together into a secret, anti-flying car organization, that's alright by me. Because I don't want the hassle of a stupid flying car, anyway. Take that, Mr. Jetson!
Who is to blame for this? The tire makers, perhaps? Maybe its the road construction people. Maybe they've all banded together to form a secret society whose sole purpose is to hold back the development of flying cars so they can continue to line their pockets. We don't have flying cars for the same reason we don't have water-powered cars; there's too much money to be made from their absence.
Though, now I can't help thinking that all this expectation will lead to a very disappointing experience once we do have flying cars. We'll still need traffic lanes, and there will still have to be speed limits and other kinds of safety regulations, plus with the added dangers of flying. Looking at it that way, I'm glad we don't have flying cars, because it doesn't look like it will be very cool at all. In fact, it would probably just complicate and stress things more.
So, if the tire and road construction people have banded together into a secret, anti-flying car organization, that's alright by me. Because I don't want the hassle of a stupid flying car, anyway. Take that, Mr. Jetson!
