REVBENT Your responses look generated πŸ™‚. At least separate the paragraphs for easier reading.

Not everything that seems impossible now, should be considered possible in the future, especially if the only argument for that is merely "the power of endless progress."

Just because some things that looked impossible in the past came into realization now, doesn't mean that everything imaginable now, will become possible in the future. It's a fallacy, and I don't think it has a name yet in the pantheon of common fallacies.

There's the domain of genuinely not possible, as opposed to the domain of just seemingly impossible. It takes intelligence and knowledge and wisdom to discern between the two.

To put it more poetically. We all know that Clarke said that Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. It may indeed be so. Let's accept it as a premise. However, from this it doesn't follow that any imaginable magic is possible thru sufficiently advanced technology. Yet, sadly, this is precisely what many a techno-zealot nowadays infer. It's again a fallacy. In first order logic no less.

    DaveTheCoder The y2038 threat is only 14 years away.

    I wouldn't worry too much about this. There are dozen other apocalypses scheduled between now and then.

    Jesusemora where are all the flying cars?

    Autogyros or gyrocopters have existed a long time now, most people just don't really need one.

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      Megalomaniak Autogyros or gyrocopters have existed a long time now, most people just don't really need one.

      Yeah but we were promised flying 70s mustangs, not those cardboard beanpods.

        Jesusemora where are all the flying cars?

        xyz Yeah but we were promised flying 70s mustangs, not those cardboard beanpods.

        1. French musician becomes first-ever passenger inside flying car: β€˜Amazing experience’
        2. The Futuristic Doroni H1-X Flying Car Is Here to Reinvent Personal Mobility
        3. A flying car prototype just got an airworthiness certificate from the FAA

        Sorry, I'm too lazy to look further.

          Tomcat if i remember right, we got flying cars a long time ago.
          we have not however developed flying car friendly infrastructure.

          xyz yall talking about them cars, somebody give me this.
          It supposed to be in 2015.. now its almost 10 years later and we are not even close..

            xyz Give us the proper flying cars, like Deckard's:

            kuligs2 It supposed to be in 2015.. now its almost 10 years later and we are not even close..

            Human civilization (from the first stationary settlements) is about 7K years old. (By some assumptions β€” 9-10K.) An error of 10 years is less than a statistical error. Wait a bit, about 50-100 years β€” and they will appear.

            xyz I mean given enough force even a brick can fly, but unless we get extremely safe miniature fusion power plants I don't see it happening. But there are street legal autogyros for certain regions and places. Whether it's a horse driver cart or motorized, whether it has 2 wheel or 3 or 4. If it can carry passengers, and go from point A to B I'd say it's a car[t]. πŸ™‚

            Also, a autogyro, while a rotor vehicle isn't exactly the same thing as a helicopter. Gyrocopter is an applicable alternative term. The top rotor is freely moving, and not motorized. It can't do VTO like a helicopter can, though both can do autorotation for landing safely given the operator does the right things for that(in case of helis engine needs to be disengaged).

            @xyz i do admittedly engage in run on sentences and paragraphs. I find it easier to type how i think than try to type how others read. I will try to break it up some more, i thought i already had, i think the new lines ill just put empty spaces between.

            That does make me wonder what a chat bot would have to say about all this. I may have to put a little time in that direction. As far as chasing a fallacy. I completely agree that most whimsical ideas don't come to reality, but all grand ideas do start as an absurd notion to someone. The realists certainly have their place and probably take the "W" more than the dreamers, but from electricity, flight, space travel, genetics, computing, etc most of those ideas came from a place of absurdity from the "realists" at the time.

            @kuligs2 in my high school physics class we had a "hover board", it was a hover craft imo. It did work and made a great way to get the class interested in the lesson(s) for a chance to "ride" on it. You'd get a small push and float around a little bit, it did have to be plugged in to run so you could only move so far. I know i saw a drone style hover board, if that counts? https://omnihoverboards.com

            @DaveTheCoder I remember first seeing that in cs50... and was pretty amazed at how fast time goes by. Hopefully they dont forger an old nuclear bunker lol

               We can improve on a computer, unlike the dumb iPhone 20's, pardon my language. There is a point where you can't improve something, like the plastic water I am drinking. You can make the plastic thicker to make it less harmful for humans, But it takes MORE MONEY. I'm sure if we find a cheap way to make ai bots that make code, it will happen.
            
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