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IBM Flying Cars Commercial

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IBM Flying Cars Commercial

A 2000 IBM commercial in which Avery Brooks complains that we still have no flying cars. It plays on the failed futurist promises of the twentieth century.

HN commenters reference it, sometimes jokingly, in flying-car threads as an ironic sign that culture had written off the idea.

3 Hacker News mentions · 2015–2016

Topics

  • Futurism & technology and society
  • Arts & entertainment (other)

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