XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: proto@panix.com   
      
   In article ,   
    Greg Goss  wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
   >   
   > Very few of us buy cars from Motie Engineers.   
      
   No need. Watchmaker made cars are almost as good and much cheaper.   
      
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