IBM Flying Cars Commercial

Why it was recommended

Deliciously ironic considering it represented the fact that mainstream culture had all but written off the idea entirely.

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What it covers

A 2000 IBM commercial in which Avery Brooks complains that we still have no flying cars. It plays on the failed futurist promises of the twentieth century. It is for a general viewer who does not plan to take a prerequisite first.

Video details

Channel

Dromlarid

Length

31 sec

Year

2007

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