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| β | [[Cueball]] is complaining to [[Megan]], on a phone call on his {{w|smartphone}}, about the lack of {{w|Flying car (aircraft)|flying cars}} even though it is the year 2011. This is a reference to the joke {{w|Flying_car_(aircraft)#Where.27s_my_flying_car.3F| | + | [[Cueball]] is complaining to [[Megan]], on a phone call on his {{w|smartphone}}, about the lack of {{w|Flying car (aircraft)|flying cars}} even though it is the year 2011. This is a reference to the joke {{w|Flying_car_(aircraft)#Where.27s_my_flying_car.3F|Where's my flying car?}} This was explored further in [[1623: 2016 Conversation Guide]] where [[Randall]] proposes that flying cars would in fact just be helicopters. |
Megan counters that phone technology has taken off. For example in many science fiction movies it was predicted that by now we would have flying cars, but in the same movies the computer technology was pretty much similar to what they had achieved at the time of the movies release (see for instance ''{{w|Blade Runner}}'' set in 2019; even back in 2011 very few believed that flying cars would roam the streets by then.) The flying car is still not perfected (although there are some {{w|Flying_car_(aircraft)#Modern_developments|prototypes}} flying today). But almost any computer technology shown in old movies pales in comparison to the current state of smartphones and other computers. | Megan counters that phone technology has taken off. For example in many science fiction movies it was predicted that by now we would have flying cars, but in the same movies the computer technology was pretty much similar to what they had achieved at the time of the movies release (see for instance ''{{w|Blade Runner}}'' set in 2019; even back in 2011 very few believed that flying cars would roam the streets by then.) The flying car is still not perfected (although there are some {{w|Flying_car_(aircraft)#Modern_developments|prototypes}} flying today). But almost any computer technology shown in old movies pales in comparison to the current state of smartphones and other computers. | ||
