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"Writing about the future, I have a vested interest in there being a future for me to write about."
- John Brunner
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| Diaheliper | ||
| Offers delivery of diapers by air. |
| It seems there had been a low-altitude collision between two small planes... One plane was a Diaheliper, belonging to an aerial diaper service that flew diapers to rural homes by helicopter. |
| Technovelgy from The Morning of the Day They Did It,
by E.B. White. Published by The New Yorker Magazine in 1950 Additional resources -
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Compare to the helicab from Heli-cab Hack (1950) by John Weston.
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| Inmotion Electric Unicycle In Combat |
| Congress Considers Automatic Emergency Braking, One Hundred Years Too Late |
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