America’s problem is not that it needs more jetpacks. Jetpacks are not innovation. Jetpacks are a fetish object for retrofuturist otaku who jerked off to Judy Jetson, or maybe Jennifer Connelly’s character in The Rocketeer. “We were promised jetpacks!” they whine. Yeah, dude, but what you got was Agent Orange.
Imagine a Segway that could kill you and set your house on fire. That’s what a jetpack is.
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Madeline Ashby, No one cares about your jetpack: on optimism in futurism
‘Jetpacks are a fetish object for retrofuturist otaku who jerked off to Judy Jetson’ – priceless!
from Stowe Boyd http://stoweboyd.com/post/120021533667
