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[Listverse] 10 Unbelievable Technologies that Exist Now - Top 10 Lists | Listverse: I would argue that if anything people would have been surprised and excited if you told them about these technologies all the way back to the 70s (not entirely sure, just picking what I believe is a reasonable era) but not entirely unbelieveable. Consider all the Sci Fi movies and books that believed that by the year 2000 we would have (among other things) flying cars, cured all diseases, teleportation, faster than light travel, food through pills etc.

[Escape The City Theme Design] Web abuzz over arrival of a flying car next year: Tһе web іѕ abuzz today, wіtһ sites such аѕ Endgaget аחԁ Motor Trend reporting tһаt wһіƖе Hollywood аחԁ science fiction writers јυѕt promised, one company һаѕ ԁесіԁеԁ tο deliver: Terrafugia, a Massachusetts-based company, claims іt іѕ now set tο sell tһе Transition Roadable Aircraft bу holiday season …

[Online Designs | interior design, creative design, design ideas] Flying Car Concept for Future Transportation - sky car cocept ...: For more than five decades, science fiction has been tormenting us with hallucination of in-the-air roadways and hastily choreographing sports car-like flying cars. A number of businesses have been hunting the reverie for such a long time. NASA's PAV (Personal Air Vehicle) Challenge could do a great job to chase the wild dream. To kindle rapid modernism and advancement in PAV performance, NASA has funded $2000000 in cash prizes for the PAV flight competition. here is list ...

[2 POST CAR LIFT] Where Are My Flying Cars?Where Are My Flying Cars? 2 POST CAR LIFT: became the mantra of comedians and anyone from the post WWII generation that grew up reading science fiction. A Flying Car - Is it Practical?

[mental_floss Blog] mental_floss Blog » Up, Up, and Away! 7 Modern Flying Car Designs: Starting on January 14, 2009, a team of adventurers - driving a caravan of motorbikes, 4-wheel drive vehicles, and the SkyCar - went on an expedition, traveling from London to Timbuktu. The team crossed through England, France, Spain, Morocco, and the Sahara Desert using the Skycar as aerial reconnaissance to help guide the caravan through the various types of terrain.

[JetBlog! Interactive] JetBlog! Interactive: Soaring Above Traffic In a Flying Car Sooner ...: Dietrich founded Terrafugia - Latin for "escape from land" - three years ago while still pursuing a doctoral degree in aeronoautical and aerospace engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He got his pilot's license at 17, and even as a boy dreamed of building a flying car, and his design for the Transition was among a portfolio of ideas that earned him the prestigious Lemelson-MIT Student Prize last year.

[Discover Magazine | rsslist] Dude, Where's My Jetpack? | Gadgets | DISCOVER Magazine: That's right, NASA gave us gooey foam pillows, dehydrated ice cream, and those shiny space blankets, and it may yet fork over the flying car. NASA scientists working on the Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS) project are making inroads on the two main problems holding back personal air travel on a massive, nationwide scale: midair collisions and complicated piloting mechanisms.

[MetaFilter] Correct ! | MetaFilter: Eh, that's nothing. The canonical example of this sort of thing is the guys in old science fiction zipping around in their spaceships while using slide rules to calculate orbital dynamics.

[Pooritalianboy's Weblog] FLYING CAR: In fact, even the Pentagon is working on their own version for military purposes (those guys could turn anything into a weapon). Their concept is to use the vehicle for scouting missions and then fly off into the sunset if the need occurs.

[AI Topics / AI Videos | Site / AllRecentChanges] AITopics / Robots: Today, robots are used in many ways, from lawn mowing to auto manufacturing. Scientists see practical uses for robots in performing socially undesirable, hazardous or even "impossible" tasks --- trash collection, toxic waste clean-up, desert and space exploration, and more.

[TierneyLab] Von Braun's Spaceship - TierneyLab Blog - NYTimes.com: So Bradbury, Clarke, and Von Braun are clearly way off the mark. hydroponics bays, and suchlike ”” Yes I grew up reading all the pulp fiction from the 40's and 50's I could find in my local library (I'm a child of the 60's).

[things magazine] hyper-dense-urbanism.. - things magazine: an online journal about ...: Central to Henard's vision was the widespread adoption of the cement flat roof (a good decade before it became a key feature of the emerging Modernism): 'With all the varied advantages which the employment of armoured cement offers, the covering-in of our houses with a level platform has become a simple matter, and this platform could be planted with small flower gardens or adorned with verdure clad trellises.' This would, he felt, be a perfect stepping stone to an inevitable technical development: 'But a still more important function to be performed by these terraces is that in the near future they will be used as landing stages for aeroplanes. We have not as yet arrived at that point because up to the present the aviator has not gained sufficient mastery over his machine: but as man has at length succeeded in imitating the flight of the bird it is by no means improbable that he will eventually succeed in imitating the flight of the insect.'

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[Say Anything] Say Anything » What An Amazing World We Live In: Pournelle’s work) and it amazes me just how far we’ve come. Those books are filled with spaceships and hotel rooms where you can have your food delivered in a tube and computer terminals where you can access entire wealths of information.

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