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" I sometimes suspect that we're seeing something in the Internet as significant as the birth of cities. It's really something new, it's a new kind of civilization."
- William Gibson
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| Robopark | ||
| An automated parking garage. |
I know that there are several hundred of these; I'm not sure when they were invented, probably in the 1920's.
| Mary had no intention of letting anyone know where she was going. Outside her friend's apartment she dropped down a bounce tube to the basement, claimed her car from the robopark, guided it up the ramp and set the controls for North Shore. The car waited for a break in the traffic, then dived into the high-speed stream and hurried north. Mary settled back for a nap. |
| Technovelgy from Methuselah's Children,
by Robert Heinlein. Published by Astounding Science-Fiction in 1941 Additional resources -
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This text comes from the 1958 version of the story; in the original version serialized in Astounding Science-Fiction in 1941, the word "robopark" is not used.
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