"rickshaws" the word for the future. Like "The Graduate" movie of the 60's.

[CK_John]

In NYC they call them pedicabs. But I can see a future where the Interstate system will be divide. The current east bounds lanes will be used for hikers on foot, bicycles, and rickshaws. The current west bound lanes will be one way in each direction for the few delivery trucks and government vehicles on the road.

Walmarts' will be overnight detention centers and soup kitchens for the wandering masses and the greeting of the day will be, "Got Milk".

[I_Will]

1. So short...and yet so soul-emptyingly bleak...

...and it's certainly not out of the realm of possibilities.


Way to kick of the weekend! :evilgrin:

[CK_John]

2. Probably over the top, but I feel society is sleepwalking. n/t

[Gabi Hayes]

3. Blade Runner, without the concomitant technological advances.

or....Virtual Light, by William Gibson: communties inhabiting the Bay Bridge after a very bad earthquake, in an age of economic collapse, brought on by the rise of the zaibatsus.