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Poo Bear
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 1:55 pm    Post subject: The future today Reply with quote
A vision of the future from 1958. Entertaining to spot which ideas are way off, which were spot on and which were almost right.



My favourite is the tunnel digging machine that appears to use an exposed atomic pile to melt its way through Smile
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 9:32 pm    Post subject: Re: The future today Reply with quote
Poo Bear wrote:
A vision of the future from 1958. Entertaining to spot which ideas are way off, which were spot on and which were almost right.

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My favourite is the tunnel digging machine that appears to use an exposed atomic pile to melt its way through Smile


Gotta love the flagrant dissreguard for the laws of thermodynamics.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 3:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Oh America and our highways...

I think my favorite part was how none of the highways had more than one or two cars on them at once. If these highways are going to make our lives so much better, why aren't more people using them?
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 8:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Oh America and our highways...

I think my favorite part was how none of the highways had more than one or two cars on them at once. If these highways are going to make our lives so much better, why aren't more people using them?


Well one could argue that they do make our lives better only if one or two people use them at a time.
The biggest mistake of this film is failing to anticipate congestion and all its ill effects.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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The biggest mistake of this film is failing to anticipate congestion and all its ill effects.


And urban sprawl.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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icarus wrote:
The biggest mistake of this film is failing to anticipate congestion and all its ill effects.


And urban sprawl.


It did menton urban sprawl.
It just assumed it would be a good thing. Which It would be if it weren't for the problem of moving all those people.
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