W. Bruce Cameron - Time for Me to Fly

Time for Me to Fly

W. Bruce Cameron

Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published in 2008.

I have been waiting my whole life for the future, but it never seems to get here. I’m especially frustrated over the lack of flying cars, which I feel were virtually promised to us years ago by the science program “The Jetsons.” Certainly I was led to believe that by the time the 21st century rolled around, technology would have advanced to the point where we could soar up into the sky for our collisions.

A few flying cars have been hand-built, but they haven’t been mass-produced because s...