no.19 - Flying Cars

The future was supposed to include flying cars. But like round buildings, and video phones, flying cars are cool, but make no sense.

Forget about the fact that human beings are just too dumb to navigate the skies en-masse. If you have ever watched a flying car prototype wobble around, you may have noticed the dust, leaves, twigs and small animals that get blasted into a churning tornado of air as the car takes-off and lands. This is because, in order to stay airborne, the car must blast out a jet of air with a force equal to or greater than its own weight - like an overgrown angry hair dryer used for propulsion.

But therein lies the problem. Flying cars are not coming. And because of this, even though I am now living in the days that I once thought would be the future, it never feels like the future to me.