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Atlas Shrugged (historical context) (view source)
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# A simple hand-held device is available, for a nominal fee, that allows its user to have a conversation almost as private as on a landline.
# A simple hand-held device is available, for a nominal fee, that allows its user to have a conversation almost as private as on a landline.
The producers of ''Atlas Shrugged, Part One'' solved the airline problem by projecting the ''abandonment'' of airline travel. As to telephony, the “prime movers” could still carry cellular telephones, but the common folk might not. (The Obama Administration has promoted a scheme to ''give'' cellular telephones to persons who cannot afford them, but a hypothetical Thompson administration might have to abandon that idea fairly quickly in an environment that would force them to abandon the airlines.)
The producers of ''[[Atlas Shrugged, Part 1]]'' solved the airline problem by projecting the ''abandonment'' of airline travel. As to telephony, the “prime movers” could still carry cellular telephones, but the common folk might not. (The Obama Administration has promoted a scheme to ''give'' cellular telephones to persons who cannot afford them, but a hypothetical Thompson administration might have to abandon that idea fairly quickly in an environment that would force them to abandon the airlines.)
The novel hints at such technological abandonment in several places, such as “the shortage, and then the disappearance from the market” of various small appliances that depend on copper for their manufacture.
The novel hints at such technological abandonment in several places, such as “the shortage, and then the disappearance from the market” of various small appliances that depend on copper for their manufacture.