Quote - Everyone talks about advances in technology but have we really advanced all that much? I can remember being a kid and reading popular science where by this time we would have had cars that hovered, there was no such thing as fossil fuels and everything was more environmentally kind to the Earth. What happened to that stuff??

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I have a book published in 1944 about what the world would be like in the year 2000, and although some of the predictions came true (but not always exactly how they thought they would be), a lot of it didn't, like a helicopter whose rotor folds up and doubles as a car (a solution to the traffic jam problem). There was little importance attatched to fuel efficiency (the business model in those days for gas was based on selling as much as possible at dirt-cheap prices), there was no mention of computers (the onlyt computers extant at that time were top secret) and the futuristic electronics were vacuum tube based (microcircuitry was still thought to be impossible then).

 

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