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SUMMARY:Where is my flying car? by by J. Storrs Hall
LOCATION:Cherrywood Coffeehouse
DESCRIPTION:Saved in Palaner as: saved\n\nPalaner match: 18% · why: lots of
  people going\n\nJoin us over food and drinks to discuss the book\, “Where
  Is My Flying Car?”\nby J. Storrs Hall.\nDescription of book:\nFrom an eng
 ineer and futurist\, an impassioned account of technological stagnation si
 nce the 1970s and an imaginative blueprint for a richer\, more abundant fu
 ture. The science fiction of the 1960s promised us a future remade by tech
 nological innovation. We’d vacation in geodesic domes on Mars\, have meani
 ngful conversations with computers\, and drop our children off at school i
 n flying cars. Fast-forward 60 years\, and we’re still stuck in traffic in
  gas-guzzling sedans and boarding the same types of planes we flew in over
  half a century ago. What happened to the future we were promised? In Wher
 e Is My Flying Car?\, J. Storrs Hall sets out to answer this deceptively s
 imple question. What starts as an examination of the technical limitations
  of building flying cars evolves into an investigation of the scientific\,
  technological\, and social roots of the economic stagnation that started 
 in the 1970s. From the failure to adopt nuclear energy to the rise of a co
 unterculture hostile to progress\, Hall recounts how our collective ambiti
 ons for the future were derailed\, with devastating consequences for globa
 l wealth creation and distribution. He then outlines a framework for a fut
 ure powered by exponential progress—one in which we build as much in the w
 orld of atoms as we do in the world of bits\, one rich in abundance and wo
 nder. Drawing on years of original research and personal engineering exper
 ience\, Where Is My Flying Car?\, originally published in 2018\, is an urg
 ent\, timely analysis of technological progress over the last 50 years and
  a bold vision for a better future.\nLecture with author:\nhttps://www.you
 tube.com/watch?v=ZFC6By4CM6k\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH35bUCrLU\n
 Look for the group with lights and a sign.
URL:https://www.meetup.com/austin-intellectualdiscussiongroup/events/315262
 144/
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