{"id":1325,"date":"2012-04-28T04:13:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-28T04:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/?p=1325"},"modified":"2012-04-28T04:13:29","modified_gmt":"2012-04-28T04:13:29","slug":"pcmagcom-qa-with-dr-kaku-where-are-our-flying-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/pcmagcom-qa-with-dr-kaku-where-are-our-flying-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"PCMag.com Q&#038;A with Dr. Kaku &#8212; Where Are Our Flying Cars?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2402651,00.asp\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1326\" title=\"PCMag.com Q&amp;A\" src=\"http:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/340496-terrafugia-transition.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/340496-terrafugia-transition.jpg 275w, https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/340496-terrafugia-transition-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a>After some 80 years of empty promises, faulty predictions, countless science fiction films and comic books, and a rather famous animated TV series from the 1960s, Terrafugia may be the first company to develop and produce an actual flying car. Never mind that it costs $279,000 for now\u2014the point is that it exists, and that so far, it seems to actually work.<\/p>\n<p>To get some expert opinion and much-needed perspective here at PCMag, we asked Dr. Michio Kaku, esteemed theoretical physicist and best-selling author of Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100, for his take on Terrafugia and flying cars in general.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/IYzih4 \" target=\"_blank\">Read the full PCMag.com Q&amp;A with Dr. Kaku by visiting their website @\u00a0http:\/\/bit.ly\/IYzih4<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After some 80 years of empty promises, faulty predictions, countless science fiction films and comic books, and a rather famous animated TV series from the 1960s, Terrafugia may be the first company to develop and produce an actual flying car. Never mind that it costs $279,000 for now\u2014the point is that it exists, and that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1327,"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions\/1327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}