I have often sat down and thought, screw the flying cars;
Which I may add were proposed and built by Henry Ford in the early 20th century, with the FAA at that point laying down the precedent on how things would proceed. I might also point out there's several models and manufacturers of such things currently on the market.
Not that it was _ever_ a really wonderful idea as the compromises work against each other, and result is a compromise vehicle that's less then wonderful at both tasks.
we were supposed to have portable months-long battery life by now (if we were even supposed to still be using batteries at all--
month long batteries are easy to make, problem is theres too many laws holding them back, for mostly the right reasons, but nonetheless.
What are you two alluding to? I'm pretty sure it's not the military dry cells as while they keep the reaction rate down for very long shelf life, they're heavy, and just about the opposite of what the average consumer wants by all parameters. I'm also pretty sure it's not the Kindle's Li-Ion cell, as you're selling this as something that's not done commercially, even though it is.
also theres still people that think technology is the devils work and well....i wont even go there
Oh really?
Last I checked the only thing anyone could drag forward was an Italian who got a few days of jail for blatantly insulting the Pope in a book before it was rescinded to house arrest, the conditions of which make the average "grounding" seem utterly draconian in comparison. All of which happened well after Kepler was dead and his theory long accepted as papal doctrine, with the _Greek_ Artistolean/Ptolemiac theory maintained as no one had a good response to the Earth Moves problem and thus both were recognized as not really together enough. Hence to Sir Isaac Newton goes the glory and rights to developing a how to the why of Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion, and solving of the Earth Moves problems while for the first time actually developing a level of math adequate to really handle Physics in a mathematical instead of philosophical manner. Said Englishmen, as can be easily verified through Gutenberg, contrary to a recent movie about a secret sex cult was a theologian as well as a scientist. Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking's views on things certainly don't help your case either, nor for that matter most of the big names.
Or perhaps you allude to denying embryonic stem cell research be entitled to Federal, aka Tax Payer, funds instead of having to go through normal investor channels. A technology that if beaten and processed enough might theoretically have an advantage over the much more accommodating Adult Stem Cell technology instead of just creating tumors. That ignoring the pure depravity involved in that even if it did work manages to top how the blood industry was handled when they literally were buying prisons and repeatedly infecting the inmates with things so they could farm gamma globulins from them, and the rest a few decades ago.
The noteworthy advocates of your story, and any serious look at the history will show a story is all it is, include the Marquis de Sade who attempted to use it a chaff to further his ends of sexual depravity and sadism. And we could easily draw the line straight through to the most evil men of 20th century if you really wanted.
