Well, I mean, part of it, if you want to be a little bit cynical about it, it's about a lot of these boomers like Marc Andreessen sitting around watching The Jetsons when they were little kids. And how could that not capture your imagination, zooming around, being sent off to school in a tiny little pod? But also, this was in so much of that mid-century sci-fi, this idea that of course we are going to be getting around by flying cars.
Derek Thompson: We're about to get into the technicalities of flying cars, the physics of flying cars, the regulations, the experience, the history of flying cars. I want to start by asking you about the idea of the flying car. I feel like in Silicon Valley and the broader tech and progress world, the flying car has served as a kind of symbol of disappointment. 'Where's my flying car?' is asking both a literal question, like, 'Where's my sedan with wings?' but also, maybe even more importantly, a metaphorical question: something like, 'Why has innovation in the physical world not matched innovation in the digital space?' Why do you think the flying car has this sort of symbolic power to represent such huge ideas about technology and progress?
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