Why are we’all in such a rush, anyway? If you need to talk to someone right away, we got video conferencing. If you, in an emergency, really need to move somewhere fast, there’s helicopters. I say we just consign the whole ‘car’ idea to the dustbin of history, and just convert everything over to canals. If some insist on speed, we can consider adding a train system. But the only means of private mechanized transport must be by watercraft! That should be enough.

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        Won’t the cement usage needed create mass amounts of heat dispersal thus accelerating global warming during the transition?

        Side note. I wonder how much water it would take. I’m sure we could slowly get the salt out and use fresh water most places, otherwise we would kill all ability to grow plantlife in surrounding areas.

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    Q: It’s 2025. Where is my flying car?

    A: Best we can do is a canal boat.

    Personally I love the idea. I’m ready to slow down and enjoy the scenery.

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      A society growing in knowledge: look at all the cars we can build!

      A society growing in wisdom: what are in such a rush for anyway?

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    Get in Donalds inner circle, praise him a bit and buy him a couple of hamburgers and consider it law

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    Not the craziest idea, but rich assholes will buy speedboats and ruin it like they do everything else.

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        I want a bike that floats and can be used in the canals and on land at that point, would be kinda fun. Until I drop all my groceries in the canal… Then I’d be sad.

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    How about we comprimise and split the space between bike paths and canals?