Imagining the world of tomorrow.

HermitHogan said:
True, the motors are quiet, but the blades make a lot of noise.

If ATC doesn't manage them, something would have to — perhaps a new agency for low altitude air traffic. People wouldn't be permitted to just fly wherever they wanted with no restrictions. We'd have these manned personal drones crashing into each other! Air 'lanes' would need to be established to maintain order and safety.

Maybe we'd hop on a high-speed air expressway and at that point, the vehicle would be on auto-pilot. We'd have off ramps in the air controlled by GPS systems.

It could be a system where at no time does the operator of one of these manned personal drones have control. The pilot would simply set the destination and all the flying would be computer controlled and synched by some sort of air traffic control system. Of course, that would lend itself to the issue of somebody hacking into the system and making everybody crash, but we could deal with that when the time comes.
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Yeah, if they were to be autonomous, I would imagine that the software would direct traffic and communicate with others, under rules established by the ATC network. I don't think they would be too involved, any more than they would be concerned with people flying kites, or hang gliders.

Perhaps they would establish a minimal ground clearance to avoid noise, and a maximum height to avoid commercial air travel. Either way, it looks like it will have to happen, because the technology is already here.
 

palides2021 said:
This is a great idea, especially in congested areas.
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I've ridden on a much older outdated system in Chicago called the "El", which is short for Elevated Railway. It works similar to the Monorail at Disneyland. This newer version is much more efficient and faster. It could be the future travel in most cities that prefer it to a subway or something like BART in the Bay Area, Calif.
 
Of course, if we are unable to avoid WWIII, all bets are off, and the world of tomorrow-morrow-land may more closely resemble that seen in the Mad Max movies rather than the Jetsons. We’d be scavenging and weaponizing still running land vehicles as we’d compete viciously for rare and diminishing sources of fuel in tribalistic collectives, dressed in retro-punk clothing… 🙀

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Fyrefox said:
Of course, if we are unable to avoid WWIII, all bets are off, and the world of tomorrow-morrow-land may more closely resemble that seen in the Mad Max movies rather than the Jetsons. We’d be scavenging and weaponizing still running land vehicles as we’d compete viciously for rare and diminishing sources of fuel in tribalistic collectives, dressed in retro-punk clothing… 🙀

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I think if there is a World War III, whoever is left (If anyone) will probably be living in caves or bunkers trying to survive the protracted nuclear winter that would follow.
 
One source of free energy that's being investigated is the heat from the earth's core. In some areas, such as around Mt. St. Helens, molten magma is only a few miles below the earth's surface. If we could tap into that, it could power a massive generator.

There might be a risk of setting off a catastrophic explosion if we drilled into it, but hey, there was a risk of the universe exploding or imploding when we tested the first nuclear bomb. I say, let's give it a try! :cool:
 
HermitHogan said:
One source of free energy that's being investigated is the heat from the earth's core. In some areas, such as around Mt. St. Helens, molten magma is only a few miles below the earth's surface. If we could tap into that, it could power a massive generator.

There might be a risk of setting off a catastrophic explosion if we drilled into it, but hey, there was a risk of the universe exploding or imploding when we tested the first nuclear bomb. I say, let's give it a try! :cool:
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Yes, it's been done in several parts of the world with tremendous success. They drill wells where the earth's mantle is the thinnest, then inject water (Sometimes waste water), and out comes the steam which powers generators. They may have 25 or more generators in one site.

 
bobcat said:
Yes, it's been done in several parts of the world with tremendous success. They drill wells where the earth's mantle is the thinnest, then inject water (Sometimes waste water), and out comes the steam which powers generators. They may have 25 or more generators in one site.

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According to the video, geothermal energy already provides power for about 60% along the northern California coast and could provide 10% of the power for the entire country if developed more extensively. We're slowly moving towards clean, renewable energy. Big oil doesn't like that, which is one reason progress is so slow.
 
All the metals, plastics, composites and ultimately perhaps the fuels for future equipment and devices will come from the earth unless radical innovations are in place to recycle all the equipment and devices we now use or have used. The earth will only give up so much resources and we've already pulled a great deal from it.
 
Fyrefox said:
Of course, if we are unable to avoid WWIII, all bets are off, and the world of tomorrow-morrow-land may more closely resemble that seen in the Mad Max movies rather than the Jetsons. We’d be scavenging and weaponizing still running land vehicles as we’d compete viciously for rare and diminishing sources of fuel in tribalistic collectives, dressed in retro-punk clothing… 🙀

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One of the things I wondered about Mad Max was you never saw an Exxon station?
 
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