SlopppyEngineer
You have the mad max dystopia, the star trek utopia, and humanity is doomed to forever waddle in the middle between these two opposites. "Kinda sucks" indeed.
Hey, you can actually buy flying cars. They're at least 10x as expensive as a regular car so not affordable to buy for anyone, need a pilot license and usually a short runway. In other words, flying cars turned out to be just as crappy as artificial intelligence.
The argument David Kipling made seems reasonable. Statistically the chance if there being almost no civilisations or the universe just teeming with life are the biggest. The parameters have to be tweaked just right for there being just a few civilizations in a galaxy. It's not teeming with signals and chances of parameters being just right is low, so most probable is we being alone.
No officer, this is not a pirated movie. It's generated by an AI model I created and trained with data from the internet and the fact that it's 99% identical to an existing movie is irrelevant.
I know of one, PAL-V, that is a flying car that is street legal and can be ordered right now. It's 500 grand and needs a pilot license. Those flying cars are not for the poor.
That's Putin's doing. His bluff was strong and he had a big pile of material, so the West is using a Russia technique known as the salami slice method, by slowly escalating and gauging the reaction from Putin. It means no world war 3 scenario, no allies that have to come to his defense and also not letting Putin taking whatever he wants with just bluff and threatening speeches. It is costly in lives and material though.
They'll give it all the social interaction and wisdom scraped from YouTube clips.
For even more fun, add in the children of Gaza wanting to escalate upward in the same way as Israel did and Iran becoming a nuclear power. If those two things ever combine things can get very ugly.
You don't want to stop a war of your job and status depend on that war continuing
Same with water usage. Everybody has to reduce water, not wash cars while industry and agriculture who use like ¾ of the water don't do anything
Last I heard this was because of overpopulation, making hunting more difficult.