This was boring.
I should have expected this when I signed up for the ‘Art of the Future’ fair. However, my then alcohol fuelled brain had failed to consider how boring the endeavour could be. The art structure in front of me was titled ‘Fuel of the Future’. The artist was proudly presenting it as his vision of a post ten year future: Flying cars which recharged with giant plugs. I shrugged as I clicked my chronometer and travelled twenty years into the future, where I hailed from.
I tsked as I saw the streets still crowded by cars…
Word Count: 99
Prompt:
The Dark Netizen 
Yup. I’m still waiting for my personal jetpack
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Recently in the news there was a report that electric cars are not the answer to anything – what needs to happen is less cars, that’s the only way things improve. Nice take.
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Nice one. I’m still hoping to beam aboard … someday 🙂
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Once a long time ago, a science fiction writer envisioned a world where people communicated by little handheld devices that could be clipped on a belt… everyone thought it hilariously ridiculous… 20 years later…those same people are addicted to their cell phones…. just saying…
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Ha ha, nice one. When I was a child I thought we’d all be riding around in cars in the sky one day… 🙂
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Even I thought the same!!
I still think they are just a couple of decades round the corner! 😉
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It’s funny how many predictions for the future miss and how many things no one predicted become reality.
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So true! 🙂
Just human fallacy I guess!
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It’s just a matter of time…
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Agreed! 😉
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Old habits die hard. Difficult to get away from fossil fuel as source of energy till it is completely exhausted. No wonder twenty years post invention, cars were still crawling on the roads and rechargeable flying cars were nowhere to be found.
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It’s all driven by money. Cars aren’t going anywhere…
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You slipped in a nice twist when you revealed that your visitor was a time traveller. I liked that!
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I’m anxiously awaiting my replicator!!! 🙂 Well-done piece.
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Why need flying cars when you have a chronometer like that?
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Well, that’s disappointing. Hoped for flying cars in the future. Very creative take on the photo! =)
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Yes, change comes slowly. the best journeys in life are contained in the expansion of great imaginations. Cars, well we might call them something else in 20 years time but they will still be super mobility devices.
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So often, predictions are nothing more than wishful thinking. Life just goes on.
Click to read my tale
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Well, I hope not. But fun to time travel. Where’s that switch?
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We will only get flying cars when Big Business finds them more profitable than today’s vehicles.
Cool tale.
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Sad to see there is not progress in the future or is there no future in progress? Nicely done.
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Nice job!
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Good story, DN. It’s laughable when we see the future as the forecast from twenty or more years ago as to what today was supposed to look like. Well written. 🙂 — Suzanne
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Thank You, Suzanne! 🙂
That is true! 🙂
Even though technological growth is rapid it is hard to predict which direction it will turn in!
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