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5Electric, self-driving, fl ying cars. Robot housekeepers,cooks, valets, secretaries, and personal assistants. The SDSHUOHVV%u0003 R%u0380%u0003%u0003FH%u0011%u0003 2XU%u0003 HQWLUH%u0003 OLIH%u0003 RSHUDWHG%u0003 IRU%u0003 XV%u0003 E\\%u0003automation. Where is it? We have a future arriving late.7KH%u0003%u00c0%u0003UVW%u0003HOHFWULF%u0003%u00b4DHURFDU%u00b5%u0003SURWRW\\SH%u0003ZDV%u0003EXLOW%u0003LQ%u0003%u0014ffi%u0015%u0019%u000f%u0003DQG%u0003aerocars for all was promised to us in 1940. Individual, personal MHWSDFNV%u0003ZHUH%u0003SUHVHQWHG%u0003LQ%u0003%u0014ffi%u0019%u0017%u0011%u00033LFWXUH%u0010SKRQHV%u0003ZHUH%u0003%u00c0%u0003UVW%u0003PDGH%u0003to work in experiments in 1956. We saw all this and more in the popular cartoons of the 1960s%u20131980s. We do have sort-of-robots we converse with and get answers from that will also turn lights RQ%u0003DQG%u0003R%u037f%u0003%u000f%u0003RSHUDWH%u0003WKH%u000379%u000f%u0003RUGHU%u0003WKLQJV%u0003IURP%u0003WKH%u0003,QWHUQHW%u000f%u0003QDPHG%u0003Alexa and Siri. The fast-food industry has prototype robot cooks. We may wind up living like the Jetsons, with even more AI-based automation replacing our labor, moving us from place to place The Jetsonsby Dan KennedyCHAPTER 1