Where Is My Flying Car?: A Memoir of Future Past

Categories: Computers & Technology, Science & Math

Mid-century futurists expected flying cars, nuclear power everywhere and nanotechnology by now. Engineer J. Storrs Hall asks why those predictions failed and argues that the problem was not physics. Hall traces a slowdown in energy use and technical progress since the 1970s, which he calls the Henry Adams curve flatlining. He blames regulation, risk aversion and a cultural turn against growth, and makes the case that flying cars and abundant energy are still within reach.

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