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Ha! Brilliant.
lodge on November 20, 2008 at 4:49 PM
The Molar Skycar has been around awhile. Hope that guy can finish it, it’s a good concept.
Meric1837 on November 20, 2008 at 4:52 PM
The following political message is brought to you by the Hope-n-Change poltical action committee. The future will be broadcast in it’s entirely after this paid program.
Limerick on November 20, 2008 at 4:53 PM
Welcome to the world of tomorrow!
lorien1973 on November 20, 2008 at 4:57 PM
Uuh..now, hmm..now, let’s see..now, wait a minute..now.
I knew the future would get here, I’ve seen it coming.
Speakup on November 20, 2008 at 5:02 PM
The future, like tomorrow, never arrives. Tomorrow is always tomorrow, even if yesterday tomorrow was today.
lorien1973 on November 20, 2008 at 5:05 PM
It’s here right now.
Dr. Manhattan on November 20, 2008 at 5:12 PM
Well, just hold on now, McGuinty! The One has told me that we are the ones we were waiting for (i.e. the future), so since we are the future, then we’ve been here a whole hour already! And, quite honestly, the Future is hungry for dinner….
dmh0667 on November 20, 2008 at 5:14 PM
It’s the 80′s, Where’s Our Rocket Packs?
29Victor on November 20, 2008 at 5:18 PM
All this talk of flying cars is a joke. We have flying cars. They are called planes. I’d rather have ONE of the miracle drugs we are making now than some BS retrofuturistic “flying car.” Come on.
Dr. Manhattan on November 20, 2008 at 5:29 PM
Given how bad some people are driving in just two dimensions, do we really want to give them three.
And the future is always the next second.
rbj on November 20, 2008 at 5:39 PM
First…
He’s a dolt. More Malthusian Ehrlich nonsense. Nearly all world population specialists see the world topping off at around 10 billion as even birth rates in the developing world are decreasing. That’s an easily sustainable number even with today’s resources. We will undoubtedly have more resources then. Long live Julian Simon.
Point two: What happened to the future? Let me tell you with a parable.
I have an invention. It will increase human productivity tenfold, increase our standard of living, make everything quicker, more accessible, cheaper and better and give us new and expanding freedoms we never had before and everyone will be able to own one, some will own even two!
One small catch, it kills approximately 50,000 people a year.
At that point the lawyers shut you down and the investors walk away.
What is the invention? The automobile. If the automobile were invented today, ti would never get past the bureaucrats, lawyers and nannies of today.
There’s a reason the early 20th C. was the machine age while ours is the information age. Our society has become less restrictive of information and more restrictive on people’s safety. We have cut ourselves off from perhaps millions of inventions as significant as the automobile, but we have been too afraid to try.
THAT’S why we don’t have flying cars and jet packs. It’s not a lack of tech, it’s a lack of balls.
tlclark on November 20, 2008 at 6:31 PM
Stay waiting for my hoverboard
Greenhelmet on November 20, 2008 at 6:47 PM
You are absolutely right! I used to work at NASA when they were deciding what would replace the shuttle. There were perfectly good ideas out there, very slight technological advances. What did they settle on? Basically, a repeat of the Apollo program!
We’re going backward.
stonemeister on November 20, 2008 at 6:48 PM
*still
Greenhelmet on November 20, 2008 at 6:50 PM
Was it Yogi Berra who said “The future ain’t what it used to be.”?
Ars Moriendi on November 20, 2008 at 6:58 PM
Ars
I think so. Very apropos.
Dr. Manhattan on November 20, 2008 at 7:04 PM
Drivel.
MB4 on November 20, 2008 at 8:39 PM