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We didn’t lose the ability to build the future; we lost the will to imagine it. J. Storrs Hall revisits Where Is My Flying Car? to unpack how energy, regulation, and vision shaped the world we live in.
Flying cars were never just a fantasy. They were a mirror for our ambition. In the mid-20th century, we stood at the edge of a Jetsonian future powered by abundant energy and technological optimism. Then came stagnation. We traded ambition for caution. Energy flatlined. Regulation hardened. Imagination narrowed.
But the dream isn’t dead. A new generation of builders and optimists is pushing to reignite that vision—to build the future we were promised. The gap between what’s possible and what’s real isn’t physics. It’s willpower.
The future is waiting. The only question is whether we’ll build it.
We didn’t lose the ability to build the future; we lost the will to imagine it. J. Storrs Hall revisits Where Is My Flying Car? to unpack how energy, regulation, and vision shaped the world we live in.
Flying cars were never just a fantasy. They were a mirror for our ambition. In the mid-20th century, we stood at the edge of a Jetsonian future powered by abundant energy and technological optimism. Then came stagnation. We traded ambition for caution. Energy flatlined. Regulation hardened. Imagination narrowed.
But the dream isn’t dead. A new generation of builders and optimists is pushing to reignite that vision—to build the future we were promised. The gap between what’s possible and what’s real isn’t physics. It’s willpower.
The future is waiting. The only question is whether we’ll build it.
