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Message no. 1
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Dave Weirs)
Subject: Real Life(tm)Tech: Flying Cars and Drones!
Date: Tue Mar 27 16:15:01 2001
<unlurk>
Now doesn't this look like the height of Niftyness? This reminds me of
the recent IBM commercial with Avery Brooks: "Where are my flying cars? I
was promised flying cars!"

http://www.moller.com

</unlurk>
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Dave Weirs dave@********.com
Network Administrator
Cybergate Internet Technologies UIN: 173933
"Out the 10Base-T, through the router, down the T1, over the
leased-line, off the bridge, past the firewall... nothing but Net."
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Message no. 2
From: shadowrn@*********.com (John Pederson)
Subject: Real Life(tm)Tech: Flying Cars and Drones!
Date: Tue Mar 27 16:30:04 2001
Dave Weirs wrote:

> <unlurk>
> Now doesn't this look like the height of Niftyness? This reminds me of
> the recent IBM commercial with Avery Brooks: "Where are my flying cars? I
> was promised flying cars!"
>
> http://www.moller.com

Woo... I haven't heard anything about the Moller SkyCar in... geez,
years at least. Pretty spiffy. I wonder if they're any closer to
actually mass-producing those things than they were eight years ago?

--
John Pederson
pedersje@**.rose-hulman.edu
Message no. 3
From: shadowrn@*********.com (abortion_engine)
Subject: Real Life(tm)Tech: Flying Cars and Drones!
Date: Tue Mar 27 21:50:04 2001
From: "Dave Weirs" <mekadave@****.net>
> <unlurk>
> Now doesn't this look like the height of Niftyness? This reminds me of
> the recent IBM commercial with Avery Brooks: "Where are my flying cars? I
> was promised flying cars!"
>
> http://www.moller.com
>
> </unlurk>

Oh, poor Moller...he's been doing this since forever, it seems. I remember
seeing pictures years ago in Popular Science, which I haven't subscribed to
since...well, a while, at any rate.

Your comment about the IBM commercial reminds me of largely every single day
I sit at work; I'll be sitting behind my desk, surrounded by what would have
been millions of dollars of computer equipment just five years ago, and
someone will walk in with a printed copy of a spreadsheet, 76 pages of
numbers in columns and rows. Here's a sample conversation of what occurs
next:

abortion_engine: And what is this?
SquirrelKiller: That spreadsheet you needed.
ae: It's not on the network?
SK: Yeah. Why?
ae: Couldn't you have e-mailed it to me? Or, all the better for not clogging
the Exchange server, just e-mailed me a link to the copy on the network?
SK: Uh...

I guess, being my age, I'm still so impressed with the /concept/ of a
computer, of interconnectivity, that I have this irrational desire to
actually /use/ it. I've seen the death of the typewriter, the birth and
death of the fax machine, and the birth of the personal computer, and I have
been told, every step of the way, that the future was just around the
corner. And yet, somehow, whenever I got to the future, it was just like the
past, only later. And inevitably, in these conversations I have, I ask the
question of whomever has confronted me with 120 pages of Hammermill
Graphicopy 20lb bond Bright White, "What happened to the paperless office I
was promised?" And they always just laugh, nervously, and turn away; they
never have an answer.
Message no. 4
From: shadowrn@*********.com (dcalvert)
Subject: Real Life(tm)Tech: Flying Cars and Drones!
Date: Tue Mar 27 23:35:01 2001
----- Original Message -----
From: abortion_engine <abortion_engine@*******.com>
To: <shadowrn@*********.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 8:49 PM

>And inevitably, in these conversations I have, I ask the
> question of whomever has confronted me with 120 pages of Hammermill
> Graphicopy 20lb bond Bright White, "What happened to the paperless office
I
> was promised?" And they always just laugh, nervously, and turn away; they
> never have an answer.


<delurk>

Try working for a bank......three redundant backups for the computer and
they STILL want a hard copy stored somewhere in a box. Sheesh!

Willow

<relurk>

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