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"Tokyo homeless people reiterate the whole nature of living in Tokyo in cardboard boxes, they're only slightly smaller than Tokyo apartments, and they have almost as many consumer goods. It's a nightmare of boxes within boxes."
- William Gibson
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| Airpolo | ||
| Polo played in mid-air with special aircraft and helium-filled balls. |
| Princeton's Left Two caught the ball with a magnificent backstroke of his mallet and sent it whirring two miles back down the lake.
"That's polo, Toom Gillis," Rade Hallam shouted in my ear. "That's airpolo at the acme." The dazzling play had averted a sure goal.. The helium-inflated ball, losing momentum, was beginning to rise to the level of the marker balloons. |
| Technovelgy from Sunward Flight,
by Leo Zagat. Published by Super Science Stories in 1943 Additional resources -
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Be sure to see the article for rocket-polo from Ra For The Rajah (1938) by John Victor Peterson.
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