Welcome to the Future — Flying Cars
As we come to the end of the first decade — OK, technically it ends in one year but does anyone really think of decades that way? — we can’t even figure out what to call it.
Plenty of names have been suggested over the years. The Oughts, the Naughts, the Naughties, the Zips, the Preteens, the Ohs and the Oh-Ohs are among the more familiar. You’ve probably heard them all. None has caught on.
We like to predict the future.
Paul Milo wrote a book called “Your Flying Car Awaits: Robot Butlers, Lunar Vacations and Other Dead-Wrong Predictions of the Twentieth Century” (Harper Paperbacks). As the title says, it is a guide to some major “oops,” committed in many instances by eminent thinkers.
How do you get into this floating car?
But we can always take comfort in what Abraham Lincoln said:
“The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.”
First time I’ve heard that quote.
Read the rest of the clever essay in the New York Times by Clyde Haberman.
Tags: decade, flying car, predict the future
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December 30, 2009 8:00 AM
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