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rlpb on April 23, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: SimCity Player Spends 3 years on optimal city desi...

This is stuff of science fiction. I remembered Arthur C. Clarke for having written this, but apparently H. G. Wells was first: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_walkway#Science_fiction

ovi256 on April 23, 2010 | [–]

Jules Verne did it before that, in the Floating Island if I remember correctly. Which is a parody of 19 century USA, by the way.

ErrantX on April 23, 2010 | [–]

I recommend reading Wells' "When the Sleeper Wakes" - the description of "future" technology is fascinating (particularly the moving walkways)

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