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I also say it will happen. 30 years is a lot different than today. By a long shot. We'll have ANI (artificial narrow intelligence) completed by then. It'll

I also say it will happen. 30 years is a lot different than today. By a long shot. We'll have ANI (artificial narrow intelligence) completed by then. It'll be able to drive a car and fly a drone PERFECTLY. So why not a flying car? We'll have Graphene solved and able to create mass quantities cheaply. Which means the weight problem will be solved. We'll have far better batteries than we do now. In addition, metallic hydrogen anyone? That alone may actually pave the way for country hopping. Who's to say, in 30 years there will be no cars on the road or planes in the sky. Travel would have been fully democratized. Just pull out your phone and uber/lyft/other yourself wherever you want to go. Oh and the final upside. No more TSA. That alone is priceless. ------- Plus up next, build a much stronger model for planet hopping. I think that's a worthwhile goal to aim for. Fancy a weekend trip to Mars? Hmm, in 2050?

blacksmith_tb 10y ago
Hmm, not sure about the security implications of many medium-sized flying vehicles, just forcing one to drop out of the sky in a crowded downtown would be pretty nasty. So the TSA may be replaced with some other kind of inspection regime (or surface to air missiles). As for weekends on Mars, we'll need your solved graphene to build a space elevator to get into orbit cheaply, but the travel time will presumably be months, any faster and you'd be a pancake inside the craft, either accelerating or decelerating.