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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday January 02 2019, @03:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the and-gyro-pistols dept.

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It's 2019, the year Blade Runner takes place: I can has flying cars?

Welcome to 2019, the year in which Ridley Scott's 1982 sci-fi film masterpiece Blade Runner is set. And as predicted in this loose adaptation of a 1968 Philip K. Dick story, we have flying cars.

The reason you don't have a flying car was explained by author William Gibson, who famously observed, more or less, "The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed."

If you're Sebastian Thrun, you've already flown in Kitty Hawk's Flyer, which is more flying boat than flying car. If you're not, chances are you will have to wait a bit longer to live your sci-fi noir transport fantasy.

Topics include flying cars, artificial pets, voice driven photo enhancement, the Voight-Kampff machine, ad-festooned airships, space colonies, artificial organs and replicants.


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Thursday January 03 2019, @01:35AM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Thursday January 03 2019, @01:35AM (#781304)

    The problem with flying elegantly like birds is that our fat asses already weigh much more than the largest birds out there, and any elegant (ornithopter like?) flying machine has to hoist one or more of our keisters into the sky with it.

    If hollow bones, feathers and muscles scaled to 1000 lbs, there's already be elephant birds out there somewhere.

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