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"But the problem with reincarnation is that it's hard to imagine what the storage medium for past lives would be. Not to mention the input-output device. I hesitate to rule it out completely, but I'd need pretty definite proof."
- Arthur C. Clarke
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| Floating Booths | ||
| Comfortable bar booths that float around and come together for conversation. |
| Cziller's House of Irish Coffee. Inside, the place was still a cube, a one-story building forty meters high. Padded horseshoe-shaped sofas covered the entire floor, so close you could hardly squeeze between them, each with a little disk of a table nestling in the center...
"Interesting place," said Jilson. "These booths were built to float... It didn't work out. Lovely idea though. The chairs would swoop through the air, and if two people at two tables wanted to meet they'd slide their booths together and lock them magnetically." |
| Technovelgy from Handicap,
by Larry Niven. Published by Galaxy Science Fiction in 1967 Additional resources -
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This idea made me think of the same notion done large in Ringworld.
Niven kept trying to get people together in bars via technology; see Monobloc dating system.
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