Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 07/10/2025The Jetsons already told you what the emergent properties of flying cars are: the flying traffic jam. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyJv...youtube.com 5491
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 07/10/2025This (and the various other mentions of helicopters) raise an excellent additional point: the future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed. Rich people can already fly over traffic. The clamor for flying cars is an extension of the "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" worldview.wheelyweb 🇨🇦🇮🇹🇦🇺@wheelyweb.bsky.socialBOTH flying cars and robots are a bad deployment of technology to solve problems that had not been properly defined. Flying cars are the very wealthy solution to a problem (“I’ll just fly over the plebs”). They’re called helicopters. 1271
wheelyweb 🇨🇦🇮🇹🇦🇺 @wheelyweb.bsky.social · 07/10/2025I’ll add google glass and meta-ray-bans to that. A big difference between those “innovations” and say the iPhone, is that the latter innovation was about the self and one’s experience; while the former’s is an exploitation of the world & disregard to “those who are not me”. Lead character syndrome 0151
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