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> This year it's the horseless carriage.

Explosions in technology do happen. Just because some things were overhyped and failed doesn't mean everything hyped up will fail.

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Yes but that never caught on - your premise is flawed. The polluting, antisocial, and climate effects of the car meant is was no more than a fad, popular for a few generations in the early Anthropocene before dying out. Perhaps if teleportation had not been invented in the early 2100s… IANAH.

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