Apparently, the traffic riddled roadways were supposed to be a thing of the past by '09... Well, that was according to the writers of Popular Science Magazine back in the early 1950's. George Jetson style flying cars would be filling the skies, in addition to portable jet packs and artificial intelligence! As whacked out as the ideas are, it's interesting to see what type of speculations and technology was projected for the future, which is now our present.
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