Aren't we already there? (Score 1)

Perhaps I'm just not taking the article literally enough, but haven't we been in the "air age" for the last twenty years or so? Sure, we can't pull a helicopter out of our garage and fly it directly to a friends house two towns over, but how many predictions are spot on?

How many towns don't have a private airfield these days? How many people can't fly (yes fly, not be an airline passenger) if they're just willing to spend some time and money learning?

I never got quite to the soloing point myself as far as a private pilot's license, but I could have completed it and could have then flew myself anywhere I liked whenever I liked -- one of the interesting things about learning to fly is that you have to learn where you cannot fly, not where you can.