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   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   Robert Bannister  wrote   
   > Doc O'Leary wrote   
   >> scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wrote   
   >>> Doc O'Leary  wrote   
      
   >>>> 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.   
      
   >> Keep in mind, though, that that *does* have a sliver of truth to it.   
   >> OK, so we won't be able to fold the vehicle down quite that much, but I   
   >> can easily see that building designs in a world with ubiquitous flight   
   >> would be different from building designs we have today.  I expect most   
   >> of them would start the shift by designing more of them with elevators   
   >> on the outside of the building, which get gradually replaced by docking   
   >> stations where you can offload directly from your flying vehicle.  Maybe   
   >> parking platforms on every level, sure.  It all depends on what   
   >> technology is making things fly.   
      
   > I suppose we would all have to have locks and bars or maybe even shutters   
   > on our windows to keep flying burglars out.   
      
   Nar, just a decent RFID system that only lets yours   
   in and visitors you choose to enable access to.   
      
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