“History shows that major innovations predicted in three years’ time will almost all come on the market much later, or not at all,” as IO columnist Jan Wouters wrote recently in this magazine. The Dutch PAL-V is expected to be on the market next year. The Skydrive does not need a runway and is therefore suitable for the urban environment.
Japan’s Skydrive says it will be on the market in 2023 with a flying car for between $300,000 and $500,000. We’re going to have to be patient for a while longer. That element wasn’t completely out of place, but those flying cars are still not widespread. In the ‘year 2000’, where that year stood for ‘the future’ more than the year itself, we would all get from A to B in flying cars. It is the image that baby boomers grew up with. Innovation Origins looks back this month on innovations and developments about which the editors reported almost last year.
Based on the principle ‘never waste a good crisis’, all kinds of developments were accelerated and new technologies were even born. The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has largely set the agenda, also in the world of science and innovation.
If there has been an innovation of great importance in 2020, it is the development of the corona vaccine.
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