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Well, skyscraper to skyscraper (or helipad, or other permitted areas) would be a start. Eventually the tech could catch up - for example, with materials like th
by pilsetnieks 7y ago
Well, skyscraper to skyscraper (or helipad, or other permitted areas) would be a start. Eventually the tech could catch up - for example, with materials like these - https://phys.org/news/2019-03-acoustic-metamaterial-cancels.html https://phys.org/news/2019-03-acoustic-metamaterial-cancels.... - being developed.
- imhoguy 7y agoSkyscraper cable cars would be less expensive/noisy/power hungry and with more capacity. https://arstechnica.com/science/2013/02/envisioning-the-urban-skyscraper-of-2050/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2013/02/envisioning-the-urba...
- vidarh 7y agoSkyscraper cable cars require them to be near enough to each other, which would limit them to far fewer city centres. London for example has very few skyscrapers, but several parts of town have some and quite a few more have a bunch of 20+ story buildings, but only two areas (City and Docklands) have many buildings like that clustered close enough for cable cars to seem potentially viable by far enough for it to possibly be interesting.
- xvilka 7y agoIt reminds me of Canopy from the Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space book series.