[FoRK] Air cars? Please?

[Simon Wistow]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 07:47:13PM -0500, Jeff Bone said:
> Ah, the perils of futurism...

For some reason I'm reminded of 

http://yarchive.net/physics/effete.html

"When I look at the physiology research done in the 60's, it takes my 
breath away.  The creativity of it!  The things they did! I find my 
"new" ideas all the time in papers done in the 1960's, but they never 
went anywhere (perfusion of organs with fluorocarbones to cool them, for 
example). One guy (the same guy in fact), before heart lung machines, 
repaired the hearts of babies by surgically cross-connecting them to the 
circulation of adult humans, who volunteered in order to save a life.

Where has that kind of courage gone?  Where are the Yeagers and the 
Goddards and the Microbe Hunters?  How come the heros of our movies are 
no longer Micky Rooney or Spencer Tracy playing Thomas Edison, or Paul 
Muni playing Erlich or Pasteur, instead Val Kilmer playing Jim Morrison 
and Woody Harrelson playing Larry Flint? And movies whose heros are 
lawyers.  Arggh.  I don't care if it is Tom Cruise or John Travolta.  
And the rest of the movies seem to be re-creations of 60's TV shows."