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When I was a kid in the 80s, "computers will teach your kids in school" was one of those future utopia predictions. Now the thought of a computer teaching kids is horrifying to me. (lemmy.world)
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It was right there with flying cars and domed cities on the moon. That was part of the whole Disneyworld/OMNI Magazine promise about life in the year 2000.

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[โ€“] JackLSauce@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Flying cars are also horrifying: they've existed for about a century, popular culture won't accept they're a bad idea and imagine the research breakthroughs drone warfare would experience if a consumer market were funneling funds in from a whole new closely-related industry

[โ€“] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah. Regular cars can cause so much death and destruction, and making that death and destruction happen a 100 meters above the ground isn't a great idea. At least drunk drivers don't fall randomly.