#1625: Substitutions 2

XKCD comic, described below.
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((This is like a flowchart. The first line has arrows pointing to all the subsequent lines.)) It's 2016 - where's my... Flying car → They're called "Helicopters" Jetpack → Turns out people are huge wimps about crashing Moon colony → No one has put up the cash Self-driving car → Coming surprisingly soon Floating sky city → Turns out cities are heavy Hoverboard → This question is now ambiguous thanks to a new scooter thing (and will lead to an argument about the meaning of "hoverboard" which is way less interesting than either kind of hoverboard) Robot butler → He was called "Jeeves" and he wasn't that great

Title text:Within a few minutes, our roads will be full of uncontrollably-swerving cars and our skies full of Amazon delivery dogs.


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