Flying Cars of Yesterday (1)

Where are the flying cars promised so long ago? Unfortunately, they may be in the same future-past junk heap as 3D printing for libraries. Bracing, exciting is the concept presented on the American Libraries video. But so much of it is infiltrated with wish fulfillment, a projection of what would be were progress assured and circumstances utopian. As Voltaire said, if every infant grew up to the promise of its potential, the world would overflow with geniuses.