Re: More Magic Technology
I wonder if there's a relative of Professor Dionysius Lardner in the legislature?
http://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/dionysiuslardner/
"He was sometimes ridiculed for his colorful predictions many of them risibly wrong: he warned that high speed rail travel with steam locomotives was impossible because passengers would asphyxiate in tunnels, and that crossing the Atlantic by steamship was impossible because of water resistance. "