In the past it was easy to be romantic about flying cars. Today we understand they'd be built shoddily and rushed to market for the sake of short term profit,

In the past it was easy to be romantic about flying cars. Today we understand they'd be built shoddily and rushed to market for the sake of short term profit, require mandatory subscription fees for basic features, spy on us, and come with falsely advertised self driving features. We didn't become skeptical of technology spontaneously.