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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True story

[RighteousFunby]

I was playing Millennium Edition Monopoly a few weeks ago-an edition of Monopoly with various bits of sparkle, and player tokens that look like things that would forever affect our lives, change them for the better and would stand the test of time.

Bugger me sideways with a wet broomstick if Concorde wasn't one of these pieces. Gotta love that irony.

Americans and flying cars

[nnnneedles]

What's up with americans and flying cars? You all seem so obsessed...damn motorist society. Always with the oil and the flying cars. I'd rather have a time machine, an item cloner or a teleportation device than a flying car.