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Future Furniture
Further Future Furniture
"I sank deeper into my chair. Variable contours sought in vain to comfort me."
-Poul Anderson, "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth" IN Anderson, Time Patrol (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 333-465 AT 2319, p. 376.
"[The chair] fitted itself to his contours, to his every motion."
-"The Year of the Ransom," 15 April 1610, p. 659.
In The Shield Of Time, PART THREE, 31,275,389 B. C., Wanda Tamberly is a dinner guest in Faculty Lodge at the Time Patrol Academy. We expect to be told that the furniture is self-adjusting but we are not. Wanda's host, Guion, conducts her to a seat where she tries to loosen her muscles as she is being taught in phy ed. Maybe the higher echelons of the Patrol are above such things as self-adjusting furniture?
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Kaor, Paul!
Thanks for mentioning me! And I an back, at long last! (Smiles)
I don't know if TV ads in the UK shows them, but some some ads in the US for bed mattresses claim their mattresses will automatically adjust themselves to fit the preferences of the persons lying on them. IOw, we may be seeing the first beginnings of that kind of self adjusting furniture!
Ad astra! Sean
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