Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 25th Sep 2006 05:31 UTC
Geek stuff, sci-fi... In the latest study conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, over 700 technology experts were asked to evaluate an assortment of scenarios in an attempt to determine potential trends for the year 2020. With responses from representatives of the World Wide Web Consortium, ICANN, the Association of Internet Researchers, and major corporations like Google and IBM, the report reflects the perceptions of "Internet pioneers," more than half of whom "were online before 1993."
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Bats are the way forward for flying cars!
by axilmar on Tue 26th Sep 2006 14:03 UTC
axilmar
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2006-03-20

How do bats navigate the 3d space, considering they flight at night without any sort of good vision? bats never collide with each other, even in large quantities. They have a sort of radar system using sound; wikipedia calls it a 'biosonar'. Flying cars should have the same system to avoid collisions, and the cars should not be allowed to be totally manually driven (a limited manuevrability should be available that has lower priority than auto control).

But I guess it would take more than 13 years of research to put such a high tech marvel to market...