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90: It Is a Possibility: Where’s My Flying Car?

Made You Think

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I Don't Know if I'm Going to the Moon

It does feel like there has been this collective failure of imagination. If we had kept developing air travel at the pace it was developing at until the 70s, then traveling at basically 16,000 miles per hour would be relatively possible by now. And so you could do New York to LA in 20 minutes or something. It made me feel that way too, where it was almost like, yeah, I didn't realize a lot of this stuff was possible and that we had the theoretical underpinning for it.

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