Another Star Trek thing that won't come true -- to the disappointment of architects everywhere:

In the future, everyone (humans, aliens, cyborgs, clones, whatever) will NOT be roughly the same height... which is a pity, because it means you can't have one universal standard for doorway size, like in Star Trek.

In the real universe, meetings with aliens will typically lead to the embarrassment of a seven-foot-tall alien bumping his head repeatedly into doorways, or very short aliens tripping on staircases and thresholds.

(And don't get me started on horrifying accidents involving automatically closing sliding-doors and aliens with many tentacles.)

-A.R. Yngve
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Posted by A.R. Yngve on Monday April 12, 2004 at 4:41 PM at 4:41 PM