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   From: michael.stemper@gmail.com   
      
   On 01/18/2014 01:31 AM, Gene Wirchenko wrote:   
   > On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 12:15:34 -0600, Doc O'Leary   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> In article ,   
   >> Robert Bannister  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> I suppose we would all have to have locks and bars or maybe even   
   >>> shutters on our windows to keep flying burglars out.   
   >>   
   >> It's definitely something you'd have to consider.  The whole notion of   
   >> doing a lot of flying around buildings may be a non-starter these days   
   >> based on the fears of terrorism alone.  You can even expect self-driving   
   >> cars to be used for nefarious purposes.  That's one of the big things a   
   >> lot of utopian sci-fi fails to understand.   
   >   
   >       Niven caught it with jump booths mentioning that people had put   
   > them inside their homes until a rash of burglaries taught them better.   
      
   And Bester put anti-teleportation mazes in people's homes (well, rich people   
   anyway) in _The Stars My Destination_ which had teleportation as an ability   
   rather than something that required a receiving device.   
      
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