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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Shik: [QB] <a href="http://www.theforumz.com/sounds/funny/flyingcars.wav">"It's the year 2000, but where are the flying cars? I was promised flying cars! I don't see ANY flying cars! Why? Why? Why?</A> Because millions of people all over the world can work together on the Web, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You don't need flying cars....but you will need a different kind of software." As <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/1005883/">one reviewer</A> said about that ad spot, "The flying-cars spot, for instance, plays to the viewer's weariness of dumbass prognostication. That seems like a reasonable instinct: Pie-in-the-sky predictions of the sort that used to be limited to the World's Fair are now pretty much inescapable, so a small dose of actual skepticism seems like an interesting gambit. But it's a very small dose, because it turns out that the only reason we don't have flying cars is that the Internet is actually better than flying cars. There are still no limits to what technology can accomplish. So, I guess those suckers stuck in traffic on the bridge just haven't yet taken full advantage of IBM software. Or something." <A href="http://davidszondy.com/future/futurepast.htm">Tales of Future Past</A> is a neat little site that collects all those funny prognostications for our comedic review. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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