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Kamen's aspirations are even grander than that. He believes the Segway "will be to the car what the car was to the horse and buggy." He imagines them everywhere: in parks and at Disneyland, on battlefields and factory floors, but especially on downtown sidewalks from Seattle to Shanghai. "Cars are great for going long distances," Kamen says, "but it makes no sense at all for people in cities to use a 4,000-lb. piece of metal to haul their 150-lb. asses around town." In the future he envisions, cars will be banished from urban centers to make...
...Kamen's aspirations are even grander than that. He believes the Segway "will be to the car what the car was to the horse and buggy." He imagines them everywhere: in parks and at Disneyland, on battlefields and factory floors, but especially on downtown sidewalks from Seattle to Shanghai. "Cars are great for going long distances," Kamen says, "but it makes no sense at all for people in cities to use a 4,000-lb. piece of metal to haul their 150-lb. asses around town." In the future he envisions, cars will be banished from urban centers to make...
These days going to Tokyo Disneyland is the closest thing to going abroad. So many Japanese abandoned their overseas travel plans to visit the amusement complex instead that attendance for the fiscal year ending Oct. 1 showed a jump of 16%. Takayuki Kawaguchi, 31, and his wife Hanako, 30, should have been spending a late-autumn weekend in Australia where the finance company he works for had planned to celebrate its 10th anniversary. After the U.S. attacks, the company canceled the trip. So Kawaguchi was making it up to his disappointed wife, an events M.C., and their two toddlers with...
...Many a summer night we would sit on the roof with friends, and as night descended we?d point out some of our favorite skyscrapers, their lights festooning them as artful as a Disneyland castle. ?Stand here and you can see both the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building,? I would say, civic pride mingling with aesthetic awe as we indicated the world?s tallest glamorous building and its downtown elder brother, Cass Gilbert?s neo-Gothic Cathedral of Commerce. Then, sotto voce, I?d add with a dismissive wave, ?And the World Trade Center.? In our glittering family...
...linen-wearing, Birkenstock-shod, trust-fund-enabled sector of the population. No wonder Harvard Square sometimes feels like the inside of one of those sno-globes: everything is deliberate, planned, sanitized. What we get with a place that seemingly caters to everyone is an artificial Disneyland that is useful to none. And perhaps it is from this that the unsettling strangeness arises. Cambridge is like a bizarre Pleasantville—safely generic, abercrombifiedly bland, and disconcertingly eerie...