XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science
From: droleary@8usenet2013.subsume.com
In article ,
"sna" wrote:
> "J. Clarke" wrote in message
> news:MPG.2d3b71dbee74782498a35e@news.newsguy.com...
> >
> > When the train can take me from my garage to my office and stop off for
> > groceries on the way home, all on my schedule, without my having to walk
> > several blocks in the snow at each end or make several transfers, get
> > back to me.
>
> Yeah, that one is never going to happen, even with the pod system.
Only a fool would imagine that's a good idea in the first place. Part
of the beauty of a "pod" system is that it can not only abstract a
transporter, but a replicator as well. You need groceries? You push a
few buttons and it all gets sent *to* you! Hell, we already have
approximations of this with companies like Amazon. The main thing
stopping progress on improved logistics are the dopes who keep thinking
they need to drive everywhere in cars to do things manually.
> When I can park the plane in the lower level of a
> > multilevel underground parking garage get back to me.
>
> That one might be possible if a flying car can be a normal
> car too. The cost of getting the wings stowed well enough
> so it can operate like a normal car in the highest density
> situations like a parking garage would be a real challenge tho.
Again, such a future is a fool's dream. Like I said, if I work on the
20th floor, it makes no sense for me to have a flying car that forces me
land it and park some distance away, walk to my building, and then get
in an elevator to get me back up into the sky. That's stupid thinking
that fails to actually do the world building exercises that create a
believable future.
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