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   From: droleary@8usenet2013.subsume.com   
      
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    Greg Goss  wrote:   
      
   > I'm not sure how the magic keyword "fractals" applies here.  The   
   > journey has a fractal nature, but nobody has explained a technology   
   > that uses that fractal nature.   
      
   One fractal concept is space filling curves.  Those are *exactly* the   
   way you should be planning to serve an area with transit systems.  It   
   requires no great new technology to accomplish, just a bit of improved   
   logistics.   
      
   > I don't mind walking 100 feet or so between steps of the journey, but   
   > I don't like the half-mile walks and long waits that current public   
   > transit requires.   
      
   That's my point; we don't currently *require* that, but we *have* that   
   because the wrong people are deciding what gets implemented.  It could   
   be argued that the whole split between sci-fi utopia vs. dystopia comes   
   down to not technology changes, but whether or not the idiots in charge   
   get booted out the door.   
      
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