Skybound City: Vertical Commute Chaos (and Awesome Air-Shows!)

By 2035, flying cars, personalized and autonomous, will be commonplace, transforming cities into breathtaking, three-dimensional mazes of interwoven flight paths. These aren’t just commutes; they’re aerial ballets, with synchronized flight patterns creating dazzling light shows choreographed to the city’s heartbeat, occasionally interrupted by the inevitable mid-air fender-benders (thankfully, with advanced collision avoidance systems). Air traffic controllers will be replaced by sophisticated AI traffic managers, constantly juggling millions of automated flights, occasionally needing to issue a “hold your altitude, please, while we clear this rogue flock of pigeons”.