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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.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday January 03 2019, @01:45AM
Planes have gone mass production and race for the bottom capitalist competition. Amtrak runs as a monopoly curiosity, almost a living museum piece. In the right circumstances, trains should be more efficient than planes, but that would require infrastructure investment that just hasn't happened in the US.
We took the Silver Meteor from Charleston to D.C. - nice ride, except for the 30 minute delay prior to arrival at Union station. Cost less to fly home...
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