{"id":2792,"date":"2005-04-18T21:52:34","date_gmt":"2005-04-19T04:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2005\/04\/18\/2792.html"},"modified":"2005-04-18T21:52:34","modified_gmt":"2005-04-19T04:52:34","slug":"items-flying-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2005\/04\/18\/items-flying-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Items: Flying cars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As Avery \"Sisko\" Brooks put it in a very entertaining IBM commercial a few years back:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\"It is the year 2000, but where are the flying cars? I was promised flying cars. I don't see any flying cars. Why? Why? Why?\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah, the perennial dream of flying cars:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ken Wernicke's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadabletimes.com\/roadables-integ_wernicke.html\">Aircar<\/a> seems to no longer be under development.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moller.com\/skycar\/\">Moller Skycar<\/a> has been on the way for some time now.<\/li>\n<li>And now, welcome the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airscooter.com\/\">AirScooter<\/a>, which looks to me like a life-size Lego-and-Nerf rendition of an Imperial speeder bike.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartercopters.com\/\">CarterCopter<\/a> is more like a personal helicopter than a car, but it sure is fast.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2005\/04\/15\/60minutes\/main688454.shtml\">CBS article about flying cars<\/a>, complete with video.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sadly, the Avery Brooks commercial appears to be no longer freely available at adcritic.com; they're a subscription site now.  Oh, well.  If you didn't see the original ad, you can read <cite>Slate<\/cite>'s <a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/1005883\/\">description of the ad<\/a>, or you can read Daniel Keys Moran's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kithrup.com\/dkm\/dkmnonfic\/vastsea.html\">related commentary<\/a> (and the audio clip on that page starts with the audio of the Avery Brooks line from the commercial).<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Avery &#8220;Sisko&#8221; Brooks put it in a very entertaining IBM commercial a few years back: &#8220;It is the year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}