Remember those seminal scenes in sci-fi movies when cars lift off and speed away or tiny jets zip through high-rise neon jungles at breakneck speeds and vertigo-inducing angles? It is in those moments that we get an inkling of what it might feel like to live in the future \u2013 and how we might navigate the urban sprawl.<\/p>\n
After our explorations of future environments \u2013 in terms of efficient and organized living\u00a0arcologies<\/a>\u00a0or architectural approaches\u00a0(growing skyscrapers)<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 our next feature focuses on possible sci-fi inspirations for novel transportation concepts. And while the most obvious mode that springs to mind, direct transport via\u00a0Star Trek<\/i>-style \u201cbeaming,\u201d is bound to remain in the fictional realm for some time to come, we would like to explore some more immediately \u201cfeasible\u201d solutions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n One of the most prevalent science fiction ideas is the obsolescence of automobiles \u2013 and their replacement by flying personal carriers, usually small jets or helicopters. As early as 1934, when\u00a0Arthur C. Clarke<\/a>\u00a0(author of2001: A Space Odyssey<\/i>) published his short story\u00a0Twilight<\/i>, personal transport took to the air. Along those lines, popular animated TV series\u00a0The Jetsons<\/a>,<\/i>Robert Zemeckis\u2019\u00a0Back to the Future<\/i><\/a>, Luc Besson\u2019s\u00a0The Fifth Elemen<\/a>t<\/i>\u00a0or Ridley Scott\u2019s\u00a0Blade Runner<\/i><\/a>\u00a0promoted on airborne travel \u2013 most notions of future cities have people flying around in aerial vehicles.<\/p>\n \n How science fiction inspires the future of our cities Pt.3 Remember those seminal scenes in sci-fi movies when cars lift<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,66],"tags":[859,875,873,876,99,874],"class_list":["post-3513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-literatur","tag-bettery","tag-china-mieville","tag-city","tag-future","tag-science-fiction","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wortraub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wortraub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wortraub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wortraub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wortraub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wortraub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3515,"href":"https:\/\/wortraub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513\/revisions\/3515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wortraub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wortraub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wortraub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wortraub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}More at bettery-magazine.com<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"