Technological Flights Of Fancy That Fizzled

prostoalex writes "MSNBC's Alan Boyle takes a look at seven futuristic dreams for the past that never managed to materialize into anything substantial in this 21st century. At the top of the list are flying cars, with personal jetpacks, passenger airships, supersonic commercial flights, space travel and colonies, with propulsion breakthroughs completing the list."

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Futuristic dumped ideas

[JawFunk]

Comparable to all the apps that are written for Linux, only about 2% actully get out there.

Oh, and flying cars never materialized because it is the opposite of controlling increasing traffic problems.

The Absolute Most Overhyped

[ThomasFlip]

Although this is sort of off topic, the most over hyped technological event ever had to have been Y2K. How did this ever get so over-hyped ? Surely tech experts could have figured out that nothing would happen. Was this hype attributed to naive tech experts, the media or what ?

Don't forget

[twitter]

NT, the Unix killer! Fizzzzle

Parent nailed it again

[Evil Adrian]

Hey everybody! We should completely disregard all research that's been done on the topic of the explosion of the Hindenburg, because because fnj said it was hydrogen without any factual basis, but what the fuck let's believe him anyway.

Re:That fireball did wonders for the Concorde too.

[Omerna]

Airbus is winning contracts because they're getting subsidies from the EU and selling their planes cheaper.... not because of some crash.