{"id":1643,"date":"2014-08-18T15:36:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T20:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/?p=1643"},"modified":"2014-08-17T17:57:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-17T22:57:37","slug":"21st-century-aeroplanists-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/21st-century-aeroplanists-1916.html","title":{"rendered":"21st Century Aeroplanists, 1906."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The promise of flying cars and jetpacks in the 21st century has been around a long, long time: here is a comic from the french journal <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youscribe.com\/le-pele-mele\/\">Le Pele-Mele<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1644\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/21st-century-aeroplanists-1916.html\/aeroplanists-of-2006\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1644\" title=\"aeroplanists-of-2006\" src=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/aeroplanists-of-2006.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"432\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">IN THE YEAR 2006<\/p>\n<p>Aeroplanist to friend: &#8220;Just look down and you&#8217;ll see how backward they are in this part of the world. \u00a0Why, the peasants still go about in automobiles at a miserable fifty miles an hour.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was found in the 2 August 1906 edition of the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn88076270\/1906-08-02\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\">Williston Graphic<\/a><\/em>; note that the Wright Brothers made their first flight in December 1903 &#8212; a mere three years later, speculation had already grown to the point where, a hundred years hence, there would be no question that only backwards, primitive societies would resort to driving&#8230;ick&#8230;<em>automobiles<\/em>. \u00a0 They were just as wrong about the lasting power of the stovepipe tophat as they were about personal \u00a0flight systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The promise of flying cars and jetpacks in the 21st century has been around a long, long time: here is a comic from the french journal Le Pele-Mele: IN THE YEAR 2006 Aeroplanist to friend: &#8220;Just look down and you&#8217;ll see how backward they are in this part of the world. \u00a0Why, the peasants still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[98,626,624,625],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1643"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1657,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions\/1657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}