It is thinking like that which will prevent me from having a hovercar before I die!After 26 years of driving on the roads with other people, I am not sure I want the general public to have flying vehicle.
On a serious note, I think technology would be doing the majority of the driving/flying for hovercars. Similar technology is already being tested and implemented for real driver-less cars right now. Think autopilot for aircraft. 
After 26 years of driving on the roads with other people, I am not sure I want the general public to have flying vehicle.
That's funny, I'm a year older than you and was promised the same thing! I brought this exact same topic up a couple months ago with a friend that is roughly 20 years younger while we were talking about stuff we remembered as kids. I was told that by now that we all would have flying cars..... well where is my flying car!Growing up watching Saturday morning cartoons:
Later seeing when I was around 13:
Throughout my teenaged years I thought, "Yeah! There will be hovercars by the time I reach my thirties! Forties at the latest!"
I'm 57. People are dragging their feet just manufacturing ELECTRIC cars at this stage. WHERE ARE ALL THE FREAKING HOVERCARS???
Growing up watching Saturday morning cartoons:
Later seeing when I was around 13:
Throughout my teenaged years I thought, "Yeah! There will be hovercars by the time I reach my thirties! Forties at the latest!"
I'm 57. People are dragging their feet just manufacturing ELECTRIC cars at this stage. WHERE ARE ALL THE FREAKING HOVERCARS???
Crossin' the highway late last night
My dad is 62 and I remember one day he was telling me how futuristic the year 2000 sounded to him and his friends back in the 70s. It rang promise of crazy technology. lolThat's funny, I'm a year older than you and was promised the same thing! I brought this exact same topic up a couple months ago with a friend that is roughly 20 years younger while we were talking about stuff we remembered as kids. I was told that by now that we all would have flying cars..... well where is my flying car!
FART!!!!!!
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In school, they used to show us films of what the future would look like and it did look a lot like a Jetson's cartoon.....lol. To be fair, a lot of it has come to pass, personal computers, cell phones, bluetooth, email, video conferencing, voice controlled electronics, robot vacuums. That may sound tame to a younger generation, but you have to remember something as simple sounding as a hand held calculator didn't even come out until the 70's. My dad had bought one, cost over $100 and all that thing would do is add, subtract, multiply and divide.
In elementary school? That's sad as Hell.
It is sad but I hope you are not saying Quinlan overdosed in elementary school. She was in her late teens or early 20's when she went into a coma if I recall correctly. It was a huge story during the 1970s.
Bold> That reminds me of old videos where parents asked their children, who were clearly born in the early cell phone era, to make a call using a rotary telephone. Those are hilarious.In school, they used to show us films of what the future would look like and it did look a lot like a Jetson's cartoon.....lol. To be fair, a lot of it has come to pass, personal computers, cell phones, bluetooth, email, video conferencing, voice controlled electronics, robot vacuums. That may sound tame to a younger generation, but you have to remember something as simple sounding as a hand held calculator didn't even come out until the 70's. My dad had bought one, cost over $100 and all that thing would do is add, subtract, multiply and divide.
And I will ban the first young'un who posts, "Man you're old!!!"
Now that you mention it, I do have a vague recollection of that. I thought he was saying a "gal" in his school overdosed.
Only the first young'un?Bold> That reminds me of old videos where parents asked their children, who were clearly born in the early cell phone era, to make a call using a rotary telephone. Those are hilarious.
I am old enough to remember learning some Morse code as a kid. I bet I could still work a telegraph better than those kids did with a rotary telephone.
