If there’s one thing that drives me around the bend it’s the plaintiff cry of Generations Boomer to Y: “Where’s my Jetpack?” meant to express the disillusionment of young people promised a future full of wonderful things – a future that as yet shows no signs of materializing.
What, did they pass a law forbidding research into personal jetpack technology? The reason we don’t have jetpacks is because the people who are whining about not having them were content to spend their 20’s and 30’s sitting around on their asses waiting for other people to invent them. And if someone had delivered jetpacks to these heartbroken dears on schedule, these same whiners would be screaming their lungs out about the carbon footprint of selfish, Gaia-hating jetpack users. You want the future you were promised in your innocent wide-eyed youths? Stop blubbering and invent it yourselves.
Oh, and that goes for flying cars, too.
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