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<blockquote data-quote="Barcode" data-source="post: 4837770" data-attributes="member: 3165">I actually think $20/gallon gas will bring us a restoration of the town center, as a distribution model becomes more transportation-efficient than a &quot;ship everything anywhere&quot; model.&nbsp; At least for items that cannot be produced locally or sent digitally.&nbsp; A properly configured FLGS would thrive under such a model, as a centrally accessible meeting place for nerdkind, close to the town center, and accessible via mass transit.Now books, being a digitally convertible media, will probably only last as long as it takes to come up with an aesthetically acceptable digital replacement, which has heretofore escaped us.&nbsp; But it is an area of technology under active development, with quite a few converts already.A generation or two down the way, GM-configurable MMORPG's combined with VR sensory apparati will eventually come to an acceptable level of sophistication.&nbsp; But this equipment will be expensive to start with.&nbsp; Who better to supply it than your FLGS?&nbsp; How else will boy-geeks meet girl-geeks to hook up and make baby-geeks?But then as Rechan points out, it will get inexpensive enough that the FLGS will be in trouble again.However, by then the SARS monkeys will be picking the fleas out of our nuclear-irradiated eye sockets while the remaining 14 billion people live off choice slices of our Bugle-flavored nerd-fat.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Barcode, post: 4837770, member: 3165"] I actually think $20/gallon gas will bring us a restoration of the town center, as a distribution model becomes more transportation-efficient than a "ship everything anywhere" model. At least for items that cannot be produced locally or sent digitally. A properly configured FLGS would thrive under such a model, as a centrally accessible meeting place for nerdkind, close to the town center, and accessible via mass transit. Now books, being a digitally convertible media, will probably only last as long as it takes to come up with an aesthetically acceptable digital replacement, which has heretofore escaped us. But it is an area of technology under active development, with quite a few converts already. A generation or two down the way, GM-configurable MMORPG's combined with VR sensory apparati will eventually come to an acceptable level of sophistication. But this equipment will be expensive to start with. Who better to supply it than your FLGS? How else will boy-geeks meet girl-geeks to hook up and make baby-geeks? But then as Rechan points out, it will get inexpensive enough that the FLGS will be in trouble again. However, by then the SARS monkeys will be picking the fleas out of our nuclear-irradiated eye sockets while the remaining 14 billion people live off choice slices of our Bugle-flavored nerd-fat. [/QUOTE]

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