{"id":66,"date":"2006-10-13T13:16:24","date_gmt":"2006-10-13T17:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2007-12-13T11:44:17","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T15:44:17","slug":"dammit-where-are-the-flying-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"Dammit, Where <EM>Are<\/EM> the Flying Cars?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two pieces on MSNBC today explore predictions about the future that never quite got off the ground.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some predictions about the future remain forever etched in history: Lord Kelvin&#8217;s 1895 declaration that &#8220;Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible&#8221; or Digital Equipment Corp. head Ken Olson&#8217;s 1977 statement that &#8220;There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.&#8221;  But far more predictions and visions of the future are forgotten long before the future actually happens.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And come to think of it, the heck with the flying cars.  Where&#8217;s the babysitting robot?<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/15208980\/\">The future isn&#8217;t what it used to be<\/A><br \/>\n<A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3475918\/\">Seven flights of fancy that fizzled<\/A><br \/>\n<I>(via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/jinkies.clubmom.com\/\">Jinkies!<\/A>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two pieces on MSNBC today explore predictions about the future that never quite got off the ground. Some predictions about the future remain forever etched in history: Lord Kelvin&#8217;s 1895 declaration that &#8220;Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible&#8221; or Digital Equipment Corp. head Ken Olson&#8217;s 1977 statement that &#8220;There is no reason anyone would want a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}