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Flying cars.
Asteroid mining.
Maybe a Moon or Mars colony.
End poverty.
Universal basic income/ post scarcity society.
Least to most fictional I think.
We have flying cars. They're called helicopters. And the limits to us having post scarcity are all societal/political, not technological.
The limit is skill and discipline.
Most people can’t even drive a car that is held on the ground by gravity. You want them to…fly?
Its kinda harder to crash when you add an extra dimention (more space to freely maneuver around)
Helicopters aren't exactly convenient personal transport. We could definitely make smaller maybe autopiloted transports.
Regarding post scarcity, that was the point, we could do it now with enough motivation.
Not just no, hell no. I've driven in Tennessee.
Yeah I wouldn't want them with people driving then, I'd definitely want some sort of automation to be in charge especially if there were similar amounts to road traffic.
That may be okay, but not if Musk is within a thousand miles of coding the automation.