XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science
From: robban@clubtelco.com
On 17/01/2014 2:59 pm, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> On 1/16/2014 6:28 PM, Robert Bannister wrote:
>> On 17/01/2014 2:41 am, Doc O'Leary wrote:
>>> In article ,
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
> Some places already do have them.
Indeed they do, but not usually above the second (US third) floor.
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Robert Bannister - 1940-71 SE England
1972-now W Australia
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