Where is my air car?
Living in the future is good, certainly beats the alternative.
But I'm not sure I was expecting a choice between a Charlie Stross wild ride or a Ken MacLeod dystopia.
Could be worse, we could still fit in a R.A.H. theocracy timeline with some bad luck.
What strikes me as weird is that I easily get what you are saying. What an amazing time we live in that there is a subculture of some size that shares a set of fictional views of the future. We really are in some kind of future line! I call these "Miracle and Wonder" moments when I get a shiver down my neck that we are really in amazing times and doing amazing things. Kind of anti deja vu - we really are in NEW times.
Where is my air car?
It's in India.
What is frightening is how large a fraction of the science bloggers and readers instantly get it.
HP: not that sort of air car, silly.
More like this, but that actually works and has range.
With a jetpack in the boot of course,