From: droleary@2015usenet1.subsume.com   
      
   For your reference, records indicate that   
   Greg Goss  wrote:   
      
   > Doc O'Leary   wrote:   
   >   
   > >Pointing to experimental aircraft is like pointing to cold fusion.   
   > >They are a *fiction* in the real world.  Your case is not made when   
   > >you’re deliberately being intellectually dishonest like this.   
   >   
   > I disagree with your metaphor.  Cold fusion has never been proved to   
   > exist.  Flying cars are more like tokamaks or inertial confinement or   
   > even a Farnsworth Fusor.  They exist, but aren't practical.   
      
   Fair point.  What about just regular fusion?  It’s another long-   
   standing SF dream that only pseudo-exists in reality, with the plus   
   side being that it *still* makes more sense than any existing   
   “flying cars” do.  I stuck trying to even *think* of any bad SF   
   trope that is as dumb as flying cars and has still been around for   
   so long.  Maybe video phones?  That’s yet another thing that people   
   have shown they don’t think is a good idea, but writers seem to   
   think everyone will be doing if only the tech gets a little better.   
   But the tech is there already, it’s “practical”, but not only are we   
   *not* using video as the default, we’ve even stopped talking as much   
   in favor of text, with maybe some photos thrown in.   
      
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