Were the F*#@! are my flying cars

[Susan]

I'm glad there aren't flying cars, people are idiots enough on the road - imagine drunk drivers flying over your house....

For the mostpart we have alot of technology depicted in old tv shows - phones where you can see the person, portable movies and internet, the ability to buy and make reservations in a second by a click on your computer, microwaves that cook food in minutes. We even have doors that open automatically (albiet in stores only..i'm waiting for those to end up in our house) I also heard they're building the technology that the house become computerized from sprinklers to the cooking.

It reminds me of a story or poem I read in school - does anyone remember what I'm referring to? It went on describing the clock going off, sprinklers going on..all sorts of "electronic" activity but in the end I think there was an assumption that no humans were around (probably because we were extinct from nuclear war or something) - but the machines just went on without us doing their programmed duties.



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[jmc]

I'm actuallly glad some of it hasn't happened...I don't want the commercials to know my name like in MINORITY REPORT.

But it is amazing how much has changed in the last 10 years.  I first got on the net 10 years ago when I was in college and it was nothing like it is today.

[Ash]

Susan wrote:

 I'm glad there aren't flying cars, people are idiots enough on
 the road - imagine drunk drivers flying over your house....


Imagine them flying INTO & right through your house!

Now that's scary.

[wickednick]

Your one of those "The glass is half full" kind of people Burgomaster. But thats cool, Im more pessimistic and never very satisfied.
All I want is flying cars and robot slaves.Is that too much to ask.

[Eirik]

"You know what Eirik you can take your proper grammer and correct spelling, and shove it.I can't spell and I suck at grammer just deal with it, and stop pestering me."

Fair enough - you're ignorant and proud.  So what about the faulty logic of your argument?  You know, how the big corporations are taking ideas they could turn huge profits off of and instead surpressing them because of some bizarre mysterious agenda?

[Eirik]

That's a short story by Ray Bradbury you're thinking of.  Part of his description was that one of the outer walls of the house was pitch black except for a couple of people shaped white patches.  That was supposed to be the side of the house scorched by the flash of the nuclear blast which burned all the paint except that which was shielded by people standing in the yard.  The only thing I can't remember about the story is the title.  Sorry.

[Flangepart]

"There will come soft rains". A classic.
Heard Leonard Nemoy read it once. Beauty.

[Susan]

That's it Flangepart, Thanks! It was one of those stories that teased my mind all these years, now I can hunt for it on the net and read it again. :-)  Didn't know ray brandbury wrote it

[JohnL]

>I wish we could have cars like they had in the Sixth Day. Get in and tell it to take
>you to work, the wheel goes into the dash and it drives you work.

You stole my idea for a post! The sad part is that this is completely do-able with current technology. Embed transmitters in all the roads, equip the cars with sensors and program them with very detailed maps of the streets. Of course they'd also need sensors to detect other vehicles and avoid crashes, but that could be done.

>It reminds me of a story or poem I read in school

Speaking of old stories. Does anyone here know of a story where a teenager in the future is going through a ruined city and he thinks their god was named Ashing because he sees a statue of Washington with a broken name plate? I read it in school many years ago.

[Flangepart]

Susan : See if you can get the Nemoy reading. Or, the Comic collection of Bradbury stories. They did a nice turn on that one. Although, seeing a specific artistic interpitation of his work, does clash with the images i got while reading "The golden apples of the sun". I still have that paperback, in fact.

[trekgeezer]

I've heard the Nimoy reading of this story about the automatic house. I believe it is part of  The  Martian Chronicles (which unlike the miniseries with Rock Hudson is actually a collections of stories).

[Susan]

Too bad you can download the nimoy clip on the net ...couldn't find it