Are flying cars the future?

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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The future might finally be here! Danny visits the headquarters of Joby Aviation, the company possibly furthest along in commercialising "flying cars" - just don't call them that! Plus, more on how the tech world is reacting to Donald Trump's victory and Elon Musk's new job.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Times Tech podcast with me, Katie Prescott, here in the city of London.
0:19.0	And me, Danny Fordson, Danny in the Valley, Silicon Valley.
0:24.7	Okay, we're going to come to Elon and Vivek Ramoswamy and Doge and all of that stuff.
0:32.3	But we thought after last week's episode on big tech and big politics, we should take a breather. So what I want you to do
0:41.5	is we're going to do a little exercise. Close your eyes. When you were a child, when you
0:47.6	closed your eyes and dreamt of the future, what did you see? So I know what you want me to say.
0:53.8	I know you want me to say flying cars.
0:57.2	Yes.
0:59.4	But I think I probably dreamt more of a life in space.
1:04.0	A life in space?
1:05.7	Yeah, I think so.
1:06.8	Like floating around or living on a planet.
1:08.8	Yeah, like living on a planet.
1:10.3	I was quite interested in space when I was little.
1:12.5	And the idea of being able to move to Saturn, which I liked because of its rings, was quite appealing.
1:17.9	It is quite like in terms of the planets, it's definitely the most fashionable.
1:21.8	It's got that flare.
1:22.8	Do you think?
1:24.0	The vogue of planets. Yeah, exactly. Well, we might get there because of our friend Elon, but again, we're going to park that just for the moment.
1:31.7	We're going to come back to him.
1:32.8	But let's stay with flying cars.
1:35.2	Okay, for the sake of the podcast, I'll concede.
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