There's no guarantee that the futurism would have come true for the simple fact it doesn't seem likely that flying cars and moon cities are technically or econo

There's no guarantee that the futurism would have come true for the simple fact it doesn't seem likely that flying cars and moon cities are technically or economically feasible. There seems to be an unspoken assumption behind a lot of techno-futurism that everything we've dreamed up - flying cars, space colonies, starships - are possible simply because we dreamed them up, that everything we can imagine is possible. In reality, they may not be physically possible, or if possible, not desirable, or if desirable, not economically feasible. At any rate, the point is probably moot: the damage our obsession with technology and consumption has already caused is probably irreparable, and more techno-futurist dreams coming would have just accelerated it. We have been completely blind to the second-order effects of our industrial and technological development; climate change is only the tip of the iceberg.