IBM Flying Cars Commercial
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters reference it, sometimes jokingly, in flying-car threads as an ironic sign that culture had written off the idea.
What it is
A 2000 IBM commercial in which Avery Brooks complains that we still have no flying cars. It plays on the failed futurist promises of the twentieth century.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2015 to 2016.
What Hacker News said
Cites rl3 · 2016-06 · on “Larry Page’s startups working on flying cars”
Every time I see an article on flying cars, I can't help but be reminded of an old IBM commercial[0] from 2000. Deliciously ironic considering it represented the fact that mainstream culture had all but written off the idea entirely. [0] [this video]