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noise pollution does not seem to have occurred to the writer

• ghaff 7y ago
  While true, ubiquitous personal air transportation was pretty much a staple of a lot of futurism. I suspect that part of it may be that this is from a time when air travel was nowhere as widespread as it is today--at least normally. As a result, people were probably not nearly as exposed to issues around noise from aircraft as they are today. ADDED: And, yes, an implicit assumption is presumably that these personal vehicles are quiet but it's unclear what the mechanism for that would be.
  • bluGill 7y ago
    A plane ticket today is 5 times less money for the same distance. Note that doesn't account for the vast amount of inflation between then and now.
    • ghaff 7y ago
      Certainly. But that's not personal helicopters or whatever. We ended up without supersonic flights everywhere (expensive or otherwise) but with pretty cheap ubiquitous jet travel.
• saagarjha 7y ago
  Presumably all the engines are fairly silent.