Where's my flying car?
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Where's my flying car? is a popular phrase to express technoscepticism about the over-promise and under-delivery of prospective future technologies. Some of the main influences have been Back to the Future, The Jetsons, and 60's techno-optimism.
xkcd
xkcd enjoys decontructing this trope:
Examples
- "We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters" - statement from Peter Thiel's Founders Fund[1]
- Where's My Flying Car? Science's Promises Broken
- Where’s My Flying Car? The Tech of Back to the Future 2
- IBM Flying Cars Commercial from the year 2000
- I Want My Jet Pack on TV Tropes
- Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit
See also
External links
/r/whereismyflyingcar on Reddit- Zeerust on TV Tropes
- I Want My Jet Pack on TV Tropes
- Where Is My Flying Car?: A Memoir of Future Past Kindle Edition by J Storrs Hall