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Robert A. Heinlein wrote a short story in 1940, "The Roads Must Roll", featuring long-distance, high-speed moving roads, not just sidewalks. https://en.wikiped
by gshubert17 10y ago
Robert A. Heinlein wrote a short story in 1940, "The Roads Must Roll", featuring long-distance, high-speed moving roads, not just sidewalks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roads_Must_Roll https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roads_Must_Roll
- i80and 10y agoAn idea not entirely unlike this was also used in Isaac Asimov's "The Caves of Steel".
- guard-of-terra 10y agoAnd the entirety of Strugatskies' XXII Century Noon.
- glenra 10y agoRight, and Heinlein's solution to "whizzing past the bakery" was that there would be food service traveling along the road with you. In NYC, maybe very skinny food carts?