Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 11:23:35 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Alternative reality v SF
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

>
>Flying cars exist and have for 50 years or more.  Drive up to the wings,
>back under them, hook up the controls, get in and fly away.  Other designs,
>where the wings fold, exist too.  And then there's Moller's flying car
>design that's been in the prototype stage for a few decades now...but which
>has flown.

Ooh, tell me more!

> >Filled with vivid color images and lively text, the book is eloquent
> >testimony to the confidence--and, at times, the naive faith--Americans
> >have had in science and technology.
>
>Science and technology have come through pretty well.  The "failure" in
>those predictions happened due to politics, economics and fashion fads.

I want to live in one of those tree houses that were in Leo Frankowski's
"Copernik's Rebellion".  Just fix the design flaw with the toilets so that
the waste goes out of sight and smell and it wouldn't be a problem at all.