{"id":10891,"date":"2007-11-06T13:48:20","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T10:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/06\/the-future-is-expensive-very-expensive\/"},"modified":"2007-11-06T13:48:20","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T10:48:20","slug":"the-future-is-expensive-very-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/06\/the-future-is-expensive-very-expensive\/","title":{"rendered":"The future is expensive. Very expensive."},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Again, <a href=\"http:\/\/hardware.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=07\/11\/05\/2055234&amp;from=rss\">news from Slashdot<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The City Car, a design project under way at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is envisioned as a two-seater electric vehicle powered by lithium-ion batteries. It would weigh between 1,000 and 1,200 pounds and could collapse, then stack like a shopping cart with six to eight fitting into a typical parking space. It isn&#8217;t just a car, but is designed as a system of shared cars with kiosks at locations around a city or small community.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is one of the ways I see it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>most families won&#8217;t be able to afford children (&#8220;two-seater electric vehicle&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>most families won&#8217;t be able to afford petrol powered cars (&#8220;powered by lithium-ion batterries&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>most families won&#8217;t be able to afford their own cars (&#8220;shared cars&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>most families won&#8217;t be able to afford parking spaces (&#8220;six to eight fitting into a typical parking space&#8221;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad that science in general and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mit.edu\">MIT<\/a> in particular are here to help us survive in the future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>P.S.<\/strong>: by the way, most families won&#8217;t be able to afford university education either, so MIT is giving out for free already &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/ocw.mit.edu\">MIT OpenCourseWare<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>P.P.S.<\/strong>: yes, I&#8217;m just kidding.\u00c2\u00a0 The stuff linked to from above is cool.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Again, news from Slashdot: &#8220;The City Car, a design project under way at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is envisioned as a two-seater electric vehicle powered by lithium-ion batteries. It would weigh between 1,000 and 1,200 pounds and could collapse, then stack like a shopping cart with six to eight fitting into a typical parking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/06\/the-future-is-expensive-very-expensive\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The future is expensive. 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