Where is My Flying Car?

I already got 5 emails regarding last week's note on the Barbican Future Cities exhibit. Apparently there are a lot of people out there wondering just where the heck our flying cars and jet-belts and antigrav undergarments are. Thus, to sate your hunger, to slake your thirst, I give you: the future!

• Future by Design is a huge trove of future city maquettes, animations and cg images, like these awesome sea cities, where everyone has rocketboats and personal submarines; the site is a companion to the documentary of the same name focusing on the work of the great industrial designer and modelmaker Jacque Fresco, and you can spend hours in teenage-boy-like-bliss checking out all the awesome models
  
• The Australian Sustainable Living Foundation's Future Cities Project
• McMaster University Art Gallery: Future & Virtual Cities Project - interacticity, stillcity, synchronicity
• futuristic cities in art, compiled by David Szondy; includes World's Fair exhibits, work by H. G. Wells, and many others
• Victory City: The City of the Future, the dream of Orville Simpson II
• pictures of the city of the future - please note that you cannot have a future city without a monorail
• of course, people in these future cities will have futurismic haircuts, right?
• Eugene Henard (1849-1923) and his futuristic city drawings (pictured: the Paris of the future) at the Cornell Library
• this interactive game takes place in a future city - aw yeah, flying cars
• at Global Graphica, a model of future Manhattan including the "freedom tower," but without flying cars or a monorail I'm still not very impressed
• some kids built these awesome models
• an exhibit of city models of/in Tokyo, which is as close to a Future City as we're going to get anytime soon
• BBC News article by Jo Twist on Hollywood's ongoing attempts to imagine & visualize futuristic cities and how they never quite measure up to the real thing - squatters, leveled neighborhoods ala Beijing, etc.
• the great Mike Davis is interviewed by Mark Dery regarding Davis' essay Beyond Blade Runner at Escape Velocity; related is Stephen Rowley's Cinephobia essay, The Least Scary Option: Blade Rubber & The Future City; to round out this meme, the BBC asks how much of Blade Runner has come true
• an exhibit at USC's library investigates possible futures for Los Angeles