They promised me cheap and plentiful power, Dick Tracy watches, moon bases, freedom to make the life I wanted. They promised me flying cars.
I guess I got the watch. The internet was unexpected, and that’s wonderful. The nastiness, less so.
Where’s my flying car?
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Neil MacDonald Author 
Where indeed. Mindst you, not sure I fancy them whizzing just above my head.
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Thanks, Anthony
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This made me laugh, Neil.
We had great imaginations back in the day, and we were naive enough to believe what we were told.
Like you, I still want a flying car!
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Great! A laugh is what I was hoping for
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I want a jetpack!!!
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me too
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Dear Neil,
I’m not sure I’d be able to drive a flying car. I’m afraid of heights. 😉 Fun story. Where are they, indeed?
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thanks Rochelle, I think they’re with the dragons and the odd socks that go missing in the washing machine
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Flying cars will be a reality in the future! 🙂
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So they’ve been telling me for half a century
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Damn it, where are the flying cars? The Jetson’s promised so much and all we get is lousy Skype… 😀
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Thanks for empathising, Tannille
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Instead we have people taking a picture of their breakfast and sending it out to millions. Sigh. Of course, flying cars would probably mean a lot more accidents, to maybe it’s a good thing.
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I wish I’d thought to include selfies in the story
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Next time!
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I would want one too – and self driving at that 😀
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They say it’s coming
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This was a hoot, Neil. Imagine the havoc being wreaked now if there were flying car along with the rest…
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Thanks, Dale. They’d have to learn to form murmurations
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True!
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Delightful take on the prompt, Neil. It had me smiling!
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Thanks, Penny. That was the plan
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And jetpacks, what happened to the jetpacks and the hoverboards?
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I use my jetpack every day
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Yeah … flying cars … I remember they promised something like that. What did they put in my drink that I’d forgotten all about it? 😉
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And what other promises have we forgotten?
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Oh, no! Now I’m going to obsess about what I’d forgotten that I’d forgotten! 😉
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One day we might all hover personal Drone, but will people behave; drive sensible; not stop on their neighbours.
The only limit these days is our own imagination, think it and someone will deliver.
I am thinking Lamb Curry.
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After the epidemic passes, anything is possible
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In your dreams…
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But they promised
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For now, we have to settle for self-crashing… I mean self-driving cars.
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And, as Joshua said, the ability to live stream pictures of our breakfast
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Yes, the all-important self-indulgent “Look what I’m eating.” Take that starving nations!
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Yep. Some things happened, some didn’t.
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And some things we didn’t expect
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I’m happy to forego the flying cars whilst the standard of driving is as it is.
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You have a point, Michael
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the concept of a flying car is already in the works. if we live long enough, we can see it as a reality just like the cellphone. 🙂
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It may be a little like fusion reactors, which have been in the works most of my life
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We might not see flying cars in our lifetime, but they will come!
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If not in our lifetimes, our children’s or our children’s children
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Do you remember the cars that were supposed to go from land to water? Ha! Promises Promises.
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I think they built some of them. Nobody bought them
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This reminds me of a meme I saw on social media about how we thought we would have flying cars by 2020 and instead, here we are teaching people how to wash their hands. If it’s any comfort, Neil those flying cars will be here soon enough. Just don’t know if we will be around to see them.
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At least we’ll know how to wash our hands and measure 2 metres
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I’ve been waiting for a long time on that flying car! I’m beginning to think they lied about that part. 😒
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Lied? Say it isn’t so!
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I can’t imagine the chaos that would ensue with the appearance of flying cars. Ground traffic is crazy enough!
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But it would be so cool
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We did get it mostly wrong didn’t we! I remember food sucked out of a tube was predicted to save us time and one piece clothing, along with those
jet packs. Now the internet is interesting. Ada Lovelace thought that Babbage’s difference machine would lead to something that could write poetry and he just saw it as a giant accurate calculator.
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I guess the lesson is we never really know what’s coming
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Nice one. I believe a flying car made by AeroMobil is due this year, it does have a price tag though. And the only reason we have fast internet is so that people can download movies 😉
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Thanks so much
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Love it. And now the nasty virus. Unexpected.
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Just as well we don’t have flying cars now. Millions would fly to the remote countryisde taking the virus with them
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Actually, we’ve had flying car prototypes around for decades. I’m smiling at the above comment about how we would need to participate in murmurations. I think the technology is out there, but consider the problems of setting up and implementing air traffic control centers.
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Thanks for reading, Glenn
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I do believe that flying cars is a lost cause… as a matter of fact cars might be a lost cause too.
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We can only hope so
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Perhaps the basic flying car is already here. A drone, heaven help the planet.
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Not quite how I imagined flying cars as a boy
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Oooooo I have always wanted the flying car
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Coming to every home very very soon. They’re “ramping up” research efforts
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