Though commercial aviation has become a tedious exercise in repeatedly proving that your shampoo is not actually made of C-4, it’s easy to forget that air travel used to be too expensive for the average American. Flying was an event, something you dressed up for. It wasn’t so easy to book a relatively inexpensive flight one evening and be in a faraway land the very next day. Adjusted for inflation, flying has never been a better deal.
So, while most of us are not living Wink Martindale’s life of jet-set luxury… enjoying 16-hour work weeks, clunky videophones, and zipping down to Mexico for a quick 18 holes, we can dream along with the 1967 film 1999 A.D.
https://gizmodo.com/16-hour-work-week-by-year-2020-1967-512626507
1999 AD (Golf Game)
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