The 31st flying car
I have to admit that I was delighted to hear the news that there will be a loser's revival for those who did not win a single ticket in the first round of the Tokyo Olympics ticket lottery. I was honestly delighted to hear the news that there would be a revival game for those who did not win any of the first round of ticket lottery for the Tokyo Olympics.
This lottery, which is like a second round, doesn't seem to have rules yet, but I'm just glad that it's a possibility. I hope I win the next one.
It has been six years since the decision was made to host the Tokyo Olympics. The Olympics are just around the next corner. The National Stadium is 90% complete, which should get you in the mood for the Olympics.
Still, time flies. There are only a little more than five months left until 2020.
The coincidence of the manga "Akira" depicting the Olympics to be held in Tokyo in this year more than 30 years ago was also a topic of discussion. I remember making an article about that in the last issue of Unplugged.
When we were children, the 2000s were not supposed to come, because we believed in the prophecy of "The Great Prophecy of Nostradamus" (written by Tsutomu Goshima) that a great king of terror would fall from the sky on the seventh month of 1999.
It may seem unthinkable today, but this was a huge boom that took Japan by storm. Although adults may not have believed it at the time, elementary school boys of 80% or older were definitely prepared to die at the age of 30 or more.
Tsutomu Gotoh, a guilty man. Or rather, it is the media's fault. It is the same now as in the past.
In those elementary school days, before the appearance of realistic historical backgrounds such as "Akira," future science fiction was a future where state-of-the-art airships and rockets were flying. People would wear things like spacesuits, eat things like biscuit-like all-purpose food, and travel in flying cars without tires.
Everything is new, shiny and bright for the future.
So when "Star Wars" was released, it was like being hit over the head with a sledgehammer while the spaceship was dirty with soot from the engines.
The cell phone of our dreams has evolved into something that people at the time could not even imagine: the smart phone, but the future we have yet to see is the flying car. The future we haven't seen yet is the flying car, although we have seen it in "Star Wars".
The flying car is apparently also on the verge of commercialization with drone technology. It requires some troublesome adjustments, such as legal requirements, but several companies have already completed the process of just making it fly.
I've read about them on geek news on the net, and I've seen videos on youtube, but I can't really imagine what it's really like.
However, this spring, a friend of mine wanted to have a drone photographer take pictures of him riding the waves on a surfing trip, and I said I would provide a skilled photographer.
It was the first time for me to see a drone up close. It hovered above the ocean and moved freely from side to side, up and down, at great speed, recording at our timing.
I was shocked when I saw the footage they showed me later. Not because it was so beautifully shot, but because my riding was so pathetic. I guess this is what it means to be a coward. I lost confidence.
But given the stability, speed, and ease of operation of this drone (I haven't touched it myself, but the photographer said it was easy to operate), I'd be fine if it were huge and turned into a car.
That's why when I was shooting this column, I said something like, "Drones are good, aren't they?" That's the reason why I said something like, "Isn't a drone good? You want to know how far an amateur drone can move in front of your eyes.
Mr. R, who was in charge of the project, operated the drone lightly in the company after the shooting. He could hover and move the drone normally, though he may not be able to perform complex movements yet. It has progressed to the point where I think anyone could do it with a little training.
Well, at the moment I don't see the purpose of what I'm going to do with it when I get it.
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After working as a freelance editor for Magazine House and Popeye, he managed stylists and started his own editing/production company, which was renamed Rhino Inc. in 2006.
