Comments on Puzzle #14269: WCP#85 The Dream of Flight
By Brian Bellis (mootpoint)
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Puzzle Description:
When I was a kid we were told that someday the sky would be filled with commuters flying to work using their jet packs. I'm still waiting...
#1: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Jun 1, 2011
Yeah, where's my flying car?#2: Claudia (clau_bolson) on Jun 1, 2011
I was thinking about it, too#3: Tom O'Connell (sensei69) on Jun 2, 2011
Funny how they never predicted cell phones and internet.
dang flying cops#4: Jota (Jota) on Jun 2, 2011
Thanks for your entry! Very thought provoking!#5: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Jun 2, 2011 [SPOILER]
I, for one, am glad there's no flying cars. The way people maintain their cars, I wouldn't want them flying over my house!#6: Tom O'Connell (sensei69) on Jun 2, 2011
Just yesterday, I saw a pickup going by my house at about 25mph with a terrible noise coming from its trailer. Fifteen minutes later, I passed it 2 miles away now going about 5mph with no tire on one of the trailer wheels. BUT STILL DRIVING.
Not Over My Back Yard!
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Cell phones were predicted in the sense of "radio watches" and "communicators".
The internet is kind of funny. Star Trek had one big computer that ran the ship (kind of). This was the thinking then -- computers are huge, but powerful, so one computer does everything. Then the PC came and everyone was like "pfft - they sure got that wrong!" And now, while everyone has their own computing devices, the repository of information has once again consolidated into a central 'place' - the internet. Back to the same idea, it just isn't on one computer.
They sure got the user interface wrong, though.
wow JOe... you feel better?#7: Claudia (clau_bolson) on Jun 7, 2011
Joe, I think the same idea was developed by Asimov. Multivac was Internet.#8: larrry grizzard (gizzard) on Sep 28, 2011
People have enough trouble not wrecking cars in just two dimensions. Imagine everyone on the I-10 at rush hour flying all at once!#9: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Sep 28, 2011 [SPOILER]
Bradbury had some pretty accurate pictures of the (then) future--interactive, wall-sized televisions, robot vacuums, kitchen appliances that talked to you (mine don't talk, but they all have different beeps to let me know when things are done). And he wrote about these things 50-60 years ago.
I'm sure that I would get airsick trying to fly one of those things but what a ride.#10: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Sep 30, 2011
Yet another reason I wouldn't want you flying over me... :P#11: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Sep 30, 2011 [SPOILER]
And you thought seagulls were a problem.
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