Transportation dropped dramatically in price. It made no sense for us to own cars anymore, because we could call a driverless vehicle or a flying car for longer journeys within minutes.
For those of you who aren't that old in the late 80's/90's I was told that we would have flying cars and no more oil by the year 2000. Granted, we have some potential for quad copter cars, but there's no way we're having a driverless car w/unlimited free everything in some commie utopia. This article reads like some bad fan fiction where everyone gets to have it all without the hard work.
Note: The peak oil thing is really interesting for any young pedes who don't know about the goal post moving for environmental crisis over the decades. It went from cooling -> peak oil -> warming -> climate change/carbon stuff pretty quickly.
From the 2nd article:
For those of you who aren't that old in the late 80's/90's I was told that we would have flying cars and no more oil by the year 2000. Granted, we have some potential for quad copter cars, but there's no way we're having a driverless car w/unlimited free everything in some commie utopia. This article reads like some bad fan fiction where everyone gets to have it all without the hard work.
Note: The peak oil thing is really interesting for any young pedes who don't know about the goal post moving for environmental crisis over the decades. It went from cooling -> peak oil -> warming -> climate change/carbon stuff pretty quickly.