Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!axion!edc!fraser From: fraser@edc.UUCP (Fraser Orr) Newsgroups: comp.society.futures Subject: Re: Techno Terror Message-ID: <2231@edc.edc.UUCP> Date: 7 May 91 10:52:22 GMT References: <1991Apr30.225521.755@husc3.harvard.edu> <1991Apr30.211635.8083@rodan.acs.syr.edu> <982@modus.sublink.ORG> <1991May4.223805.847@husc3.harvard.edu> Sender: news@edc.UUCP Reply-To: fraser@edc.UUCP Organization: Atex European Development Centre Lines: 12 In article <1991May4.223805.847@husc3.harvard.edu>, mason3@husc9.harvard.edu (Richard Mason) writes: |> |> At most, I expect a few central highways might be turned over |> to computer control, and perhaps just a single lane on those highways (if |> the cars can travel three feet apart at 90 mph, that's all you need!) You might all be interested to know that these highways already exist. They are called railroads :^> (And they use up a lot less of the earth, such as gas, and atmosphere). ==Fraser Orr +44 506 416778x206 UseNet: {uunet,sun}!atexnet!fraser JANet: fraser%edc@cs.hw.ac.uk