Ginger/IT is a damp squib.

[FrostyBoy]

Oh, since I know the world won't change in a way where we will be less lazy, I should say that this is a great thing, a VERY great
thing.

If I asked a Moron to build a city, he'd build New York, if I asked an intelligent person to build a city, he'd make sure it had plenty and plenty of space for people, open space! NO ROADS!!
A lot like what Rome used to be, except buildings are not so close to each other, they were open, exposed and in the light.

Cities need to be opened up, healthy, easy to maintain, not messy, closed, hard to maintain, complicated, etc.

These Segways, can make our cities look like those peaceful futurisitic type cities you see in movies where everything is perfect. Think about it, the Segways are not that stupid. I hope we do only use cars to travel from one city to the other; and just use segways to get around in the non-pollutant, open, finally nice to live in cities.

[Imran Siddiqui]

20-30 years from now, you just wait, this counter-balancing engine will change things totally.

By then, at the least, the engine will be imported to cars.

[DanS]

Finally, I will be able to keep my exertions to an absolute minimum, while being fat and happy, just as every self-respecting American should be.

Ginger RULEZ!!!

Luddites.

[Zylka]

Amen Snoopy... Regardless of the technical innovations involved, the ultimate function of this machine is ridiculous. Use your legs!

Smash - your comment brings to mind a relevant example from the 60s (and long since forgotten); fold-away, transportable, two story homes which were to "revolutionize suburban America"

If you're ever walking Granville island, and see some thin bastard kicking fat yuppies off of these lard-ass machines and into the harbor, come say hi

[Zylka]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
20-30 years from now, you just wait, this counter-balancing engine will change things totally.

By then, at the least, the engine will be imported to cars.

Sure, fine. The engine will move into worthwile industries and functions and promote success. We're bashing the ultimate function of the current machine, not offspring technical diffusion.

[orange]

Originally posted by Zylka
Amen Snoopy... Regardless of the technical innovations involved, the ultimate function of this machine is ridiculous. Use your legs!

Uh...isn't Snoopy in favor of Ginger? Unless I missed some sarcasm in his post

[Zylka]

Originally posted by Sn00py
I'll tell you what I see in the future: More FAT People.

If it wasn't bad enough, but hey, this is where it's going; and there's no way on Earth I am ever using anything like that. God gave me two legs, I think they run just fine. Besides, there are African Tribal warriors who RUN 17 miles nonstop, EVERYDAY and its no problem for them.

Stop being so unhuman, and walk.

In reply to this post. His second is a bit of a misguided pedestrian-Utopia rant.

[FrostyBoy]

yep

[orange]

ah I'm sorry, didn't see that post.

[Victor Galis]

What's wrong with New York?

OPEN SPACE?!? Now there's a dumb idea. That makes walking harder by making distances longer. Density should go up not down. More pop. density, means more open land outside the city, less distance between two things in city, etc. If I designed a city it would be crowded on a scale that New York can not even compare to, of course it would have multiple street levels.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Sure, fine. The engine will move into worthwile industries and functions and promote success. We're bashing the ultimate function of the current machine, not offspring technical diffusion.

Actually it seems you are. We are not going nuts because of the scooter... we are going nuts because of the technology behind it.

[monolith94]

Well, originally I thought I was gonna be cool and say "Well, there goes excercise as we know it" but instead I'll just post this intriguing thing.

http://ginger.patentcafe.com/gingerimages/it_upstairs.mov

How do you get on the darned thing???

[FrostyBoy]

This is our future everyone, with cracks in the ground.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by orange
I think a lot of people are ignoring the fact that the computer started out as a device which people thought "that's it?" to

That's not the case. If we ignore Babbage's inventions to go straight to the electromechanical beasts of WWII, we see that they were built with specific applications in mind. For example, a computer called Colossus was constructed to aid in the breaking of the German Enigma code.

Unlike computers, Ginger is just a solution looking for a problem.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
20-30 years from now, you just wait, this counter-balancing engine will change things totally.

That's not an engine, Irman. That's just a control mechanism. It doesn't drive this contraption, it just changes the direction.