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"Street of the Future" from the 1900 Paris Expo. The future of transportation: a moving walkway! (upload.wikimedia.org)
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Shoutout to the guy at about 0:50 in the video who greets the camera!

From Bill Wurtz:

It's 1900 and the time are going to change

Oh, now I think we're gonna be O.K.

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[–] 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Asimov had moving walkways in one if his books! I always thought that they could be extremely cool if indeed you could use them to speed around.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    They are a thing already? They look like escalators but flat. At least in Europe and in Japan it's fairly common, especially between public transportation hubs.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago

    The ones I saw always had handrails on the sides, you couldn’t get on or off at any point, only at the beginning and end. And here and in Asimov’s case there are multiple next to each other with increasing speeds.

    I think it’s the difference between fantasy and practicality. In the real world there are pesky safety concerns you have to grapple with that are just ignored in the imagination. I still want to use Asimov’s version

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