Where is my air car?
Living in the future is good, certainly beats the alternative.
But I'm not sure I was expecting a choice between a Charlie Stross wild ride or a Ken MacLeod dystopia.
Could be worse, we could still fit in a R.A.H. theocracy timeline with some bad luck.
More like this
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Metaphor, "Call Me Old and Uninspired or Maybe Even Lazy and Tired but Thirteen Bodies in my Backyard Say You're Wrong": Very cool (if silly) track from one of the best neo-progressive bands I found via Bitmunk. I love Bitmunk.
As noted in the previous FutureBaby playlist post, I started doing this after hearing Don McLean's "American Pie" on the radio while running errands the other day.
... but the questions that they were answering!
What strikes me as weird is that I easily get what you are saying. What an amazing time we live in that there is a subculture of some size that shares a set of fictional views of the future. We really are in some kind of future line! I call these "Miracle and Wonder" moments when I get a shiver down my neck that we are really in amazing times and doing amazing things. Kind of anti deja vu - we really are in NEW times.
Where is my air car?
It's in India.
What is frightening is how large a fraction of the science bloggers and readers instantly get it.
HP: not that sort of air car, silly.
More like this, but that actually works and has range.
With a jetpack in the boot of course,