Editing Flying car (section)

===Where's my flying car?===
Despite a century of anticipation, no flying car has yet proved a practical proposition and they remain an experimental curiosity. This long-term failure to make any impact on society has led to the [[meme]], "Where's my flying car?"

{{Blockquote|text=Here we are, less than a month until the turn of the millennium, and what I want to know is, what happened to the flying cars? We're about to become Americans of the 21st century. People have been predicting what we'd be like for more than 100 years, and our accoutrements don't entirely live up to expectations.&nbsp;... Our failure to produce flying cars seems like a particular betrayal since it was so central to our image.|source=(1999) <ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2482&dat=19991212&id=gZlIAAAAIBAJ&pg=4314,5320971 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130915204753/http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2482&dat=19991212&id=gZlIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pgoNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4314,5320971 |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 September 2013 |title=Future shock: Why there'll be no flying cars |work=[[The Post and Courier]] |date=12 December 1999 |access-date=15 September 2013 }}</ref>|author=Gail Collins}}

{{Blockquote|text=This new millennium sucks! It's exactly the same as the old millennium! You know why? No flying cars!|source=(2018)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2010-10/death-and-rebirth-flying-car|title=The Unexpected Rebirth of the Flying Car|work=Popular Science|access-date=21 January 2018|language=en}}</ref>|author=[[Lewis Black]]}}

The question "Where's my flying car?" has become emblematic of the wider failure of many modern technologies to match [[futurist]]ic visions that were promoted in earlier decades.<ref>''Where's My Flying Car? Science, Science Fiction, and a Changing Vision of the Future'', Symposium, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2014.[https://www.aaas.org/events/wheres-my-flying-car-science-science-fiction-and-changing-vision-future]</ref><ref>J. Storrs Hall; ''Where Is My Flying Car?: A Memoir of Future Past'', Kindle e-book, Amazon, 2018.</ref>