• magnetosphere@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Reminds me of an old science fiction novel I read years ago. Teleportation had became common, so people no longer needed cars. The entire system of interstate highways was converted to long, narrow parks.

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      It’s so weird to me that for some people the only way to escape the car dependency is to invent fucking teleportation.

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        You’ll be disappointed. It’s a very minor part of the plot, and the construction of the parks is only mentioned in passing. The novel was Ringworld by Larry Niven (written in 1970. Sexism ahoy!)