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   From: gossg@gossg.org   
      
   scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wrote:   
      
   >Doc O'Leary  writes:   
   >   
   >>   
   >>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.   
   >   
   >Now Doc, everyone knows that you land on a small platform extended   
   >from the 20th floor and your flying car automatically folds up into a   
   >briefcase which you carry into your office with you.   
      
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