Where Is My Flying Car?

Where Is My Flying Car? is J. Storrs Hall's 2007 examination of technological stagnation and the gap between mid-20th-century optimism and contemporary reality. Hall argues that despite exponential growth in computing power and information technology, physical technologies—transportation, energy, manufacturing—have advanced far more slowly than expected, leaving behind the flying cars, moon bases, and other innovations promised in the 1950s and 1960s.

The book explores multiple explanations for this slowdown, including regulatory burden, risk aversion, loss of the space-race mentality, and shifts in cultural priorities. Hall traces the history of technological optimism and the specific promises made during the post-war era, then analyzes why many have remained unfulfilled decades later.

The work became influential in technology and futurism circles, particularly among those concerned with technological progress, innovation policy, and the reasons for apparent stagnation in certain domains despite advances in others.