Re: Luddites
"For very short journeys: travelling walkways and escalators "
They're not a new invention:
http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/new-yorks-underground-moving-sidewalk-that-never-was-851345624
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/moving-sidewalks-before-the-jetsons-17484942/?no-ist=
And they're unlikely to be any more acceptable in future than they were in the past.