Science fiction author William Gibson once remarked that the future was already here, just unevenly distributed. What he meant was that the futuristic dreams of the ‘60s—a jetpack in every home, a flying car in every garage—was only off the mark in that the gadgets wouldn’t be available for everybody anytime soon.
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Science fiction author William Gibson once remarked that the future was already here, just unevenly distributed. What he meant was that the futuristic dreams of the ‘60s, was only off the mark in that the gadgets wouldn’t be available for everybody anytime soon.
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Swiss pilot Yves Rossy, the first man in the world to fly under a jet-fitted wing, speeds through the air performing a looping after launching from a hot air balloon on November 5, 2010 above Bercher, western Switzerland. LAURENT GILLIERON/AFP/Getty Images
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