[ExI] mass transit again

[John Grigg]

Spike, I ride the city bus on a regular basis and despite once getting
into a heated exchange with one unpleasant & unbalanced fellow, I
normally find lots of decent people (human beings, not "proles") who
simply want to get to their destination without any criminal drama.
And every time I see a young male give up his seat to an elderly
person or someone who is handicapped, I feel there is hope for us all!
 : )

Do you really want to live in an "Oath of Fealty" kind of world?  I
realize that was not your point, but it is where you are headed in
your line of thinking...

Best wishes,

John


On 1/7/11, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
> This is an example of what I mentioned a few days ago about being a way
> bigger threat to society than is global warming, this bigger threat is feral
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> It is a reason why I think most public transit notions are a dead end.
> Individual cars serve as suits of armor, providing a defensive barrier.  The
> challenge is to invent a form of public transit which somehow protects the
> unarmed prole from other proles.  If we build the infrastructure correctly,
> the ferals will devour each other, and the rest of us can go about our
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> In the long run I am thinking something like the old tech ski lift
> technology is the way to move proles in the big city: moving cable, with the
> option of riding alone in an individual car or with as many as four riders
> per car.  I don't know the exact mechanism, but it should be at least
> possible to create a car that individually transfers from one moving cable
> to another, so that one need only enter the coordinates of the city block
> where one wants to end, and the rest is mechanized.  This does away with
> most parking lots, or rather moves them out where there is plenty of room
> and the theoretical possibility of making the parking lots safe.
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> It could be that I am overly focused on the feral humans thing.  Damien's
> book Transcension has Dr. Malik being slain by ferals in a most memorable
> and disturbing passage.  Fortunately he was frozen and we eventually saved
> by that technology.  I propose avoiding all possible contact with them.
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