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    How Jetpacks and Flying Cars Turned Into Clichés About the Future

    The romance with flight is a proxy for the larger human relationship with technology.
    by Adrienne LaFrance Jun 06, 2014 2 minutes
    Source: flickr / Jetpack Watersports

    When a man in a jetpack jumped from the roof of the Four Seasons in Denver this week, the big question Good Morning America had was: Could jetpacks represent the future of commuting?

    Based on this particular display, probably not. The man, identified by local news stations as Nick Macomber, blasts off fairly smoothly, flies with a bit of herky-jerkiness counterclockwise and up, then

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