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- From: joshua@Veritas.COM (Joshua Levy)
- Newsgroups: ba.transportation
- Subject: Re: Cars as "something better"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.215839.27734@Veritas.COM>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 21:58:39 GMT
- References: <1992Dec17.214751.17474@Veritas.COM> <1992Dec18.194051.23452@adobe.com> <28106@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
- Organization: VERITAS Software
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- In article <28106@dog.ee.lbl.gov> b_nbca@icarus.lbl.gov (Bruce Nordman) writes:
- >John Ciccarelli notes:
- >>| Joshua Levy writes:
- >>| >Mass transit: the technology of the late 1800s.
- >
- >Yikes! I'll bet that makes my feet 14th century technology.
- >I'd better cut them off and get a (more modern) wheelchair. :)
-
- Well no, but you should be using a gas powered computer with a
- teletype connection to the internet. An if you get sick, no
- antibiotics for you! :-)
-
- In all seriousness, transportation is technology based, walking
- is not. Changes in technology affect transportation quite a bit,
- while affecting walking little, if at all.
-
- Joshua Levy (joshua@veritas.com)
-