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"What television does is rent us friends and relatives who are quite satisfactory. This is quite something, to rent artificial friends and relatives right inside the house."
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Science fiction writers were not the first to think of (or make!) electric cars; see the discussion below.
In 1828, Ányos Jedlik, a Hungarian, created a tiny model car powered by an electric motor of his own invention. In 1834, a Vermont blacksmith named Thomas Davenport installed his newly created DC motor in a small model car which ran on a short circular electrified track. Electric vehicles (with 2,3 and 4 wheels) were in wide use in Europe in the late 19th century.
In the early part of the 20th century, electric vehicles enjoyed considerable popularity in larger cities, where the limited battery life (and thus available mileage) was offset by the advantages of clean, quite operation.
It was these advantages over the smelly, noisy automobile that gave science fiction writers like Astor a reason to create utopian transportation systems that idealized the electric car. Comment/Join this discussion ( 1 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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Brin's 1990 Novel Earth Still Full Of Predictions
'... making the point that their likenesses, every move they made, were being transmitted.'
Gaia - Why Stop With Just The Earth?
'But the stars are only atoms in larger space, and in that larger space the star-atoms could combine to form living matter, thinking matter, couldn't they?'
Microsoft VASA-1 Creates Personal Video From A Photo
'...to build up a video picture would require, say, ten million decisions every second. Mike, you're so fast I can't even think about it. But you aren't that fast.'
Splendid View Of Eclipse From Orbit Visualized And Repurposed By Arthur C. Clarke
'The area affected was five hundred kilometres across, and perfectly circular.'
Goldene - A Two-Dimensional Sheet Of Gold One Atom Thick
'Hasan always pitched a Gauzy - a one-molecule-layer tent, opaque, feather-light, and very tough.'
SpaceX Wants A Moonbase Alpha
'And he had been sent with troops, supplies and bombs to command Russia's most trusted post, the Moonbase.'
Vast Apartment Living Will Get Even More Vast
'What is your population', I asked. 'About eighty millions.'
NASA Wants Self-Driving Or Remote-Controlled Vehicles For Lunar Astronauts
'THE autobus turned silently down the wide street of Hydropole. Robot-guided, insulated from noise and cold...'
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