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"Beyond a thousand years from now humans are not quite recognizably human, and I have trouble finding characters."
- Larry Niven
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| Auto-Car | ||
| A personal vehicle for indoor and outdoor use. |
In the world of this story, most human beings had given up walking.
| ... the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia was filled with the usual throng of pleasure seekers, each in his own auto-car.
 (The Autocar from The Revolt of the Pedestrians) Noiselessly, on rubber-tired wheels, they journeyed down the long aisles, pausing now and then before this exhibit or that which attracted their individual attention... Finally, a boy stopped his auto-car in front of a glass case. "What is that, Father? They look as we do, only what peculiar shapes." "That, my son, is a family of pedestrians... This family was shot in the Ozark mountains. It is believed they were the last in the world..." |
| Technovelgy from The Revolt of the Pedestrians,
by David H. Keller. Published by Amazing Stories in 1928 Additional resources -
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I think that this is a spot-on prediction of the increasing use of "scooters" by people who should be healthy but have given up walking for reasons of obesity or laziness.
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