2057

[category]

Well, I was watching the science discovery channel today and they were broadcasting how life would look like in 2057. Now the thing that bothers me is that by the year 2057 half of Americans will have flying car. I wonder how is that possible? What will happen to all the airlines? Will the airlines allow that to happen, since it will collapse their business or Airlines will be like buses? Also if they said half of americans will have flying cars in 2057 that means they will start producing flying cars early 2050's. So I am guessing I will be one of the last generation of airline pilots, if that happens I will be 67 in 2057 . Anyways, I like the medical breakthroughs they showed that will increase our life expectancy.

[TFaudree_ERAU]

George Orwell said we'd have flying cars by 1984. I still don't see any.

[charlie1017]

And Arthur C Clarke said we'd have manned bases on the moon and manned missions to Jupiter by 2001... That's why I don't listen to these so called "futurologists" and just live my life.

[troopernflight]

The average person can't even properly operate a motor vehicle, let alone an aircraft. Hovering cars that never leave the ground, maybe. But ones that take off to the sky? I just don't see that happening.

[minitour]

How's that going to work when that meteor hits the earth in 2036?

-mini

[MQAAord]

Originally Posted by troopernflight

The average person can't even properly operate a motor vehicle, let alone an aircraft. Hovering cars that never leave the ground, maybe. But ones that take off to the sky? I just don't see that happening.

Every "vision" of the future always includes flying cars.

It's not going to happen. There are far too many idiots out there who have no business driving a car let alone controlling something that FLIES. If flying cars for the masses were introduced, I would bet money that the number of fatal accidents would curtail it in a heartbeat.

[PanJet]

If we can't figure out how to power the world without oil, by 2057 we're not going to be flying (or driving) much of anything.

[Doug Taylor]

Flying cars would suck.

Just imagine that soccer mom that nearly ran you off the road with a Starbucks in one hand and the wheel of a Expedition in the other, suddenly behind the sidestick of a 300 knot 'flying car'.

Ick. Welll, at least you'll never realize what hit ya!

[charlie1017]

Originally Posted by Doug Taylor

Just imagine that soccer mom that nearly ran you off the road with a Starbucks in one hand and the wheel of a Expedition in the other, suddenly behind the sidestick of a 300 knot 'flying car'.

And now imagine that mom, with her kids, trying to get home at night in 600 ft RVR (or "street visual range" LOL) in solid bumpy IMC with the chips down and the kids starting to get queasy.

[MQAAord]

Originally Posted by charlie1017

And now imagine that mom, with her kids, trying to get home at night in 600 ft RVR (or "street visual range" LOL) in solid bumpy IMC with the chips down and the kids starting to get queasy.

Some of us could handle it just fine

Some, that is. NOT all.

To think of some of the soccer moms around here flying an airplane makes me wanna build a underground bunker and never come out!

[germb747]

Originally Posted by charlie1017

And Arthur C Clarke said we'd have manned bases on the moon and manned missions to Jupiter by 2001... That's why I don't listen to these so called "futurologists" and just live my life.

Arthur C Clarke died today.

[BajtheJino]

2057? How about 2012-the last year in which life we know will exist! Planet X is coming people.


A.C.C. was/is one of my favorite authors. I've just about got all of his 100 something books. Too bad.

[ljg]

Awesome; I want one! Flying car deaths will be a great way to keep the enormous world population boom in check.

[nosehair]

Except that computer technology has developed so that we could not even imagine what life will be like, but computers will fly, and seperate, all air traffic, and the masses will have computer skills as commonly as we have driving skills today. They won't need pilot skills.

[skidz]

The GA is certainly growing, but that still doesn't mean everyone will be a pilot in 50 years. I think something revolutionary has to happen in order for that to become true. It has to be idiot proof so general population can use it. Kinda like idiot cameras...which are not completely idiot proof, some people still somehow manage to take pics of their thumbs

[Goodspeed]

Good thing I just got my rating for this...

[category]

Originally Posted by Doug Taylor

Flying cars would suck.

Just imagine that soccer mom that nearly ran you off the road with a Starbucks in one hand and the wheel of a Expedition in the other, suddenly behind the sidestick of a 300 knot 'flying car'.

Ick. Welll, at least you'll never realize what hit ya!

there will be no accidents cause the car will be driving by itself without human control

[MQAAord]

Originally Posted by nosehair

Except that computer technology has developed so that we could not even imagine what life will be like, but computers will fly, and seperate, all air traffic, and the masses will have computer skills as commonly as we have driving skills today. They won't need pilot skills.

Except when the computers lock up!

Blue screen of death anyone?




Oh, wait, they'll be run by Macs, problem solved, nevermind!

[RightSeatGirl]

Originally Posted by skidz

The GA is certainly growing, but that still doesn't mean everyone will be a pilot in 50 years. I think something revolutionary has to happen in order for that to become true. It has to be idiot proof so general population can use it. Kinda like idiot cameras...which are not completely idiot proof, some people still somehow manage to take pics of their thumbs

Exactly, it would in all likelihood take the development of some form of anti-gravity technology for this to happen. As long as aircraft fly by aerodynamics we will not see flying cars in the hands of the general public. Even that Skycar thingy has an "N" number and will require a pilot's lic. to operate if it ever actually flys.

I believe this will happen but not anytime soon, certainly not inside the next 50 years, not likely in the 100 years either.

@ Minitour - it's not a meteorite, it's an asteroid and it's named Apophis. There is a small chance it will hit in 2029, a bigger chance it will hit in 2036 but the probabilities are minuscule.

[Wolfy]

Go pick up a stack of Popular Science's from the 1950's then come back and tell me how soon you think this would actually happen.

[SpiraMirabilis]

I can see flying cars by 2057. I doubt they'd be much controlled by the soccer-moms and more like UAVs with people inside though. Look at the Global Hawk, a military project that can taxi out, take off do its mission, fly back to base, land and taxi into a hangar with one click of a mouse. 50 years to advance that kind of technology -- not that difficult to contemplate at all. Thankfully I'll be retired by then!