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Glyn Moody (glynmoody@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 17:56:46 JST Glyn Moody

#Japan plans ‘conveyor belt road’ linking Tokyo and Osaka amid delivery driver shortage - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/06/japan-conveyor-belt-road-tokyo-osaka-plan "It is hoped ‘innovative’ 24-hour design will also cut carbon emissions, as demand for delivery services soars" 515km long - sounds crazy, but let's see...
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  Japan plans ‘conveyor belt road’ linking Tokyo and Osaka amid delivery driver shortage
  
  from https://www.theguardian.com/profile/justinmccurry
  
  It is hoped ‘innovative’ 24-hour design will also cut carbon emissions, as demand for delivery services soars
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  Glyn Moody (glynmoody@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 18:05:46 JST Glyn Moody
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  @karlauerbach I've not read it - which one?
  
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  Karl Auerbach (karlauerbach@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 18:05:47 JST Karl Auerbach
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  @glynmoody Reminds me of a book by a guy named Heinlein.
  
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  Karl Auerbach (karlauerbach@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 18:08:56 JST Karl Auerbach
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  @glynmoody Check out "The Roads Must Roll"
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roads_Must_Roll
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    The Roads Must Roll
    
    "The Roads Must Roll" is a 1940 science fiction short story by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. It was selected for The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929–1964 anthology in 1970. The story is set in the near future, when "roadtowns" (wide rapidly moving passenger platforms similar to moving sidewalks, but reaching speeds of 100 mph) have replaced highways and railways as the dominant transportation method in the United States. Heinlein's themes are technological change and social cohesion. The fictional social movement he calls "functionalism" (which is unrelated to the real-life sociological theory of the same name), advances the idea that one's status and level of material reward in a society must and should depend on the functions one performs for that society. Plot summary In the first section of the narrative, a stormy meeting takes place at a Sacramento Sector Guild Hall of the technicians working "down inside", among the very noisy great rotors which keep the moving roads going. Speakers voice various grievances and call for immediate strike action. "Shorty" Van Kleeck, the Chief Deputy Engineer...
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  Glyn Moody (glynmoody@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 18:08:56 JST Glyn Moody
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  @karlauerbach thanks
  
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  Glyn Moody (glynmoody@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 18:54:07 JST Glyn Moody
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  @krans because it's high-tech and therefore kool
  (no, it isn't better...)
  
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  Peter Brett (krans@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 18:54:08 JST Peter Brett
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  @glynmoody It is unclear to me how this is better than a train.
  
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