It was right there with flying cars and domed cities on the moon. That was part of the whole Disneyworld/OMNI Magazine promise about life in the year 2000.

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    Flying cars are also horrifying: they’ve existed for about a century, popular culture won’t accept they’re a bad idea and imagine the research breakthroughs drone warfare would experience if a consumer market were funneling funds in from a whole new closely-related industry

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      Yeah. Regular cars can cause so much death and destruction, and making that death and destruction happen a 100 meters above the ground isn’t a great idea. At least drunk drivers don’t fall randomly.