XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   In article , Tim McDaniel   
    wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   > Robert Bannister   wrote:   
   > >On 18/01/2014 5:16 am, Your Name wrote:   
   > >> In article , Bernard Peek   
   > >>  wrote:   
   > >>> On 17/01/14 01:28, Robert Bannister wrote:   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> For a while last year, I was without a car so I signed up for   
   > >>>> online shopping, but fortunately got the car back before it   
   > >>>> became necessary.  If I were still working, things would be   
   > >>>> different, but now I'm retired doing a little bit of shopping   
   > >>>> every day gets me out of the house and is partly a social   
   > >>>> occasion.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> Yes. It's worth remembering that we may be able to automate the   
   > >>> primary function of shopping there are secondary functions   
   > >>> too. Someone at home most of the time may need to get out or go   
   > >>> stir-crazy.   
   > >>   
   > >> On the flip-side, there are people who for whatever reason can't or   
   > >> don't want to go out.   
   > >   
   > >I read an SF story about a woman like that.   
   >   
   > I read another one about a man like that.   
      
   For lots of people it's not a fictional story, but a fact of their   
   daily life, and in many cases not by their own choice.   
      
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