July 9, 2009
Mike and Maaike, the atnmbl
Essentially an all-wheel-drive Internet sitting room, the solar and electric atnmbl asks you where you want to go and then takes you there. Speed and acceleration are “irrelevant considerations,” time savings is the key – that is, unless you ask the atnmbl to take the scenic route. Since you’re not driving, you’ll need something to do during the trip, hence the Internet browsing screen and open-source software architecture to download apps, social networking capabilities, and . . . a bar.
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A bar! Of my many, many — read, too many — months of commuting, I can tell you “a bar” is all we ever asked for. We bought Internet-conductive badges for our laptops, tethered 3G phones to our fingers, and wished hard for the day when trains and buses came loaded wet.
So if I really do live till Thomas Hardy’s 202nd birthday (June 2, 2042), I might get to take a spin in one of these?
Cooper, you just know you’ll be alive in 2042.
When they have — bars! in vehicles!
No more awkward hip flasks!
Yeehaw!
Party like it’s 2042!
Sweet jeebus, it has a bar … but tragically, no toilet.
A toilet one can live without, but life without a [stocked] bar . . . ? I like me a bar car.