The future flattened, in Back to the Future II, 2015 was supposed to have flying cars, hoverboards, fusion garbage-reactors, and floating highways.
Instead, we got Uber, not flying cars, and Instagram filters, not proper weather control.
@pmarca said software ate the world but it forgot to feed the parts that fly, build, and move. Concorde connected New York to London in 3.5 hours in 1969 and half a century later, we fly slower, aviation hasn’t advanced; it’s been administratively paralyzed.
The problem isn’t physics, it’s misunderstood property rights. We can fly, but until
@SkyTradeNetwork we just hadn't built the system of permissioned airspace that lets us do so in low altitudes.