Mert Sahinoglu

Above is one of my childhood’s favorite scenes from Back to the Future 2 where Michael Fox takes off with a hoverboard running into a flying car that just landed in the year 2015. I have read the news today that China has taken over US in car production. So what? We are five years away from 2015. There are no hoverboards. There are no flying cars. There is just a beaten up economy where everyone tweets and noone dreams. We need to get rid of this old concept of the car and the roads. The spirit of Benjamin Franklin needs to arise again. Americans need to learn to envision and literally relearn how to fly. 2015 and the dreams of our childhood are only five years away.