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Monthly Archives: July 2007

Chittenango, NY: The Land of Oz

Sunday, July 29, 2007

Chittenango, east of Syracuse, is a small village in Upstate New York that most would simply pass by without a second thought. However, someone tipped me off to its claim to fame: L. Frank Baum, the writer of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz (and the rest of the series), was born there. And its residents [...]

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Transportation Future, via A.C. Clarke in 1946

Tuesday, July 3, 2007

In Arthur C. Clarke’s 1946 short story Rescue Party (the first he ever sold), he offers an intriguing view of how rapid transportation of the future has changed the world and its cities:
For the culture of cities, which had outlasted so many civilizations had been doomed at last when the helicopter brought universal transportation. Within [...]

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