"Wait a minute, Doc. Ah... Are you telling me that you built a time machine... out of a DeLorean?" Marty McFly, Back to the Future
In the movie, the DeLorean was used by Marty to accidentally travel back in time to 1955. The machine uses a flux capacitor which requires plutonium, which Marty runs out of in 1955. The idea of a time travelling DeLorean is quite unfeasible, because the only direction humans have ever traveled is forward. No signs of time travel have been made yet. It could be used to go back in time to stop bad events, or used to go to the future to check the results of a certain event, and how society is truly affected by a decision. However, in the movie, Marty has to fix the past so that is father and mother fall in love. If they didn't, Marty would cease to exist in the future. The DeLorean poses an ethical issue, which is that people could ruin ones life by changing the events of the past. A small change can cause a chain reaction that causes danger in the future. I picked the DeLorean because it is stylish, and the idea of time travel is controversial in many science fiction movies and novels, and "Back to the Future" addresses many of the problems with time travel.
"I saw my entire life flash before my eyes. And guess what? ...I have a hover car ." Michael Scott, The Office.
Hover cars or flying cars have been featured in countless sci-fi films, including Back to the Future II, Star Wars, The Fifth Element, and Blade Runner, among others. At this point, the closest we have to a proper hover car is a vehicle that serves as both a car and an airplane. Terrafugia's TF-X can drive on roads, and with its wings extended, can take to the air as well. This technology seems very feasible for the future. In fact, Volkswagen has already made the beginnings of a hovercar, one that uses magnets to lift it off the ground and to steer. This kind of technology has a lot of potential, especially with regards to traffic. Rush hours may altogether cease to exist. On the other hand, flying a hover car is presumably more complicated than driving on the road, and one has to wonder if accidents and fatalities could increase with the new technology. But perhaps this ability for vehicles to hover above the ground could be limited to emergency vehicles only. Ambulances could arrive on the scene faster and transport victims to aid more quickly. Police cruisers would no longer have to be involved in dangerous high speed chases, instead flying over other vehicles en route to apprehending criminals. As with virtually all knowledge, it is how the technology of a hover car is applied that determines whether it is an advancement or a hindereance to Humanity.
"Wait a minute, Doc. Ah... Are you telling me that you built a time machine... out of a DeLorean?" Marty McFly, Back to the Future
ReplyDeleteIn the movie, the DeLorean was used by Marty to accidentally travel back in time to 1955. The machine uses a flux capacitor which requires plutonium, which Marty runs out of in 1955. The idea of a time travelling DeLorean is quite unfeasible, because the only direction humans have ever traveled is forward. No signs of time travel have been made yet. It could be used to go back in time to stop bad events, or used to go to the future to check the results of a certain event, and how society is truly affected by a decision. However, in the movie, Marty has to fix the past so that is father and mother fall in love. If they didn't, Marty would cease to exist in the future. The DeLorean poses an ethical issue, which is that people could ruin ones life by changing the events of the past. A small change can cause a chain reaction that causes danger in the future. I picked the DeLorean because it is stylish, and the idea of time travel is controversial in many science fiction movies and novels, and "Back to the Future" addresses many of the problems with time travel.
"I saw my entire life flash before my eyes. And guess what? ...I have a hover car ." Michael Scott, The Office.
ReplyDeleteHover cars or flying cars have been featured in countless sci-fi films, including Back to the Future II, Star Wars, The Fifth Element, and Blade Runner, among others. At this point, the closest we have to a proper hover car is a vehicle that serves as both a car and an airplane. Terrafugia's TF-X can drive on roads, and with its wings extended, can take to the air as well. This technology seems very feasible for the future. In fact, Volkswagen has already made the beginnings of a hovercar, one that uses magnets to lift it off the ground and to steer. This kind of technology has a lot of potential, especially with regards to traffic. Rush hours may altogether cease to exist. On the other hand, flying a hover car is presumably more complicated than driving on the road, and one has to wonder if accidents and fatalities could increase with the new technology. But perhaps this ability for vehicles to hover above the ground could be limited to emergency vehicles only. Ambulances could arrive on the scene faster and transport victims to aid more quickly. Police cruisers would no longer have to be involved in dangerous high speed chases, instead flying over other vehicles en route to apprehending criminals. As with virtually all knowledge, it is how the technology of a hover car is applied that determines whether it is an advancement or a hindereance to Humanity.