This Used To Be The Future

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THIS USED TO BE THE FUTURE: The Original E.P.C.O.T.

Everybody knows that Epcot was originally intended by Walt Disney to be an actual living, working town. Most, if they think of it at all, tend to write it off as one of crazy Unkie Walt's whacky Futurian daydeams that never would have come off, and now we've got "Celebration," and that's just as good, right?

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Now This Is The Kind Of Future I Want To See!

The Shimizu corporation has developed plans for a series of ludicrously ambitious mega-engineering projects, as you can see here

http://pinktentacle.com/2010/06/futuristic-mega-projects-by-shimizu/

and here

http://www.shimz.co.jp/english/theme/dream/index.html

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THIS USED TO BE THE FUTURE: "2001 Disney Style"

Been a while since we've done "Disney Space" stuff, so check this out.

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THINGS WE'RE DEFINITELY INTERESTED IN: "Metropolis" (The complete, restored version!)


Wow! Just wow! And dig how crisp the old footage is! Wow!

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THIS USED TO BE THE FUTURE: The Venus Project

 "The Venus Project" is an organization built around promoting Jacque Fresco's art, ideas, and outlook. The idea is basically that poverty, crime, corruption, environmental damage, and fat women are all the fault of capitalism. If, however, we can create a world that looks like a 1960s Italian SF film, or like Disney World's Tomorrowland (Before it was given that gay makeover). The whole thing started in 1975, when such garden variety suburban socialism was pretty trendy. Eventually, however, the decade as a whole sucked, and eventually people decided to just get jobs instead.

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THIS USED TO BE THE FUTURE: Atlantropia

Generally we focus on cool stuff that the good guys anticipated - or simply yearned for - in the future. But bad guys have dreams, too, you know, and sooner or later we were bound to come across one.

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THIS USED TO BE THE FUTURE: Project Constellation

So how long does it take for a vision of tomorrow to evaporate like last night's dreams? Not long at all. Sometimes something as trivial as a president who's been unable to keep a single one of his campaign promises, and decides to randomly kill a progam so it looks like he's not a completey toothless, inefectual leader.

The bottm line, my friends, is that last month Project Constellation went from being The Future to being something no different than all those Popular Mechanics covers from the 1940s.

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THIS USED TO BE THE FUTURE: "Neighborhood Nuclear Superiority"

Ah, the 1950s. I get the feeling that people were kind of dumb in the '50s, but they were just so damn fetching about it. How else can you explain something like this?

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THIS USED TO BE THE FUTURE: "The Space Shuttle"

If you're in early middle age like me, you can probably remember NASA and the government making a huge deal over abandoning "Wasteful" rockets like the Saturn V in favor of a more "Economical" system they called "The Space Shuttle." Development started in 1973, and it was expected to go into service in 1978, but as *NO ONE* could manage to do anything right in the '70s, and as Jimmy Carter had some kind of pathological hatred of the space program, it got postponed to 1981.

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THIS USED TO BE THE FUTURE: "Hermes"

Back in 1978, I read in Starlog or Future magazine an announcement that the French Space Agency were building their own space shuttle, called "Hermes." Development began the next year, and ran until 1994 or so, when the project was finally abandoned. In that time, it never flew, never even hit a finalized design. It remains fascinating, however.

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