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Seeking Delphi™ Podcast #27: Future Driving, Part Two, Flying Cars.

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“The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that’s super safe and quiet? Because if it’s a howler, you’re going to make people very unhappy.”–Elon Musk

“We wanted flying cars; what we got is 140 characters.”–Peter Thiel

Well, guess what? We now have 280 characters, and we may finally be getting flying cars. Well, some of us may get the flying cars. They clearly won’t be mass market cheap for a very long time, if ever. Part 2 of the Seeking Delphi™ Future Driving series presents an interview with Kaushik Rajashekara. He is a University of Houston professor and IEEE fellow who has been tracking the subject for decades. Me? I’ve been vaguely following it ever since The Jetsons.

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Future Driving, Part 1, Self-Driving Cars,with Alex Wyglinski here.

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Episode #27: Future Driving, Part 2, flying Cars, with Kaushik Rajashekara

YouTube slide show of Episode #27. Captioning recommended.

Terrafuggia TF-x click for video

Aeromobil demonstration video

PAL-V test flight video

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Seeking Delphi Podcast #13: The Urban Landscape of the Future

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“All cities are mad, but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful, but the beauty is grim.”–Christopher Morley

A Jetsons future?

Where will you live in 2050? What will the cities of the future look like? Tomorrowland? The Jetsons? Waterworld? Maybe they will look pretty much the same, but feel very much different. To sort out some of the possible scenarios, I sought out an expert on the urban landscape of the future. Cindy Frewen, Ph. D., is an architect and an adjunct professor in the University of Houston’s graduate foresight program. She designs near-term urban futures, and constructs scenarios for possible longer term futures.

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