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how much trust there was then in progress and technology!
What actually strikes me about these kinds of old visions of the future is the lack of imagination they display. It's always just bigger and faster versions of what they already had. Consider the second-to-last image. They foresaw "Dad" commuting longer distances at higher speeds, but it didn't occur to them that Mom might be working a job too, or instead. Nor did they foresee being able to work from home via some kind of telecommunication system. They expected passenger helicopters, but they didn't anticipate rules that would stop somebody from stinking up the whole interior by smoking a pipe in an enclosed space. They imagined everybody still being in 1950s-standard nuclear families, never anticipating that other models might become widespread, as they had been through most of previous history. And all the men are still wearing those hats.
I suspect that our own current ideas about life fifty or a hundred years in the future will turn out to be equally naïve compared to the reality.
The one positive about the old imagery of the future is that it was, at least, mostly optimistic. The paralyzing fad for cynicism hadn't started rotting people's brains yet.
And crossing the Atlantic in 3 hours...made it happen, then cut it.
In some areas of the country a pool in the backyard is pretty standard.
Infidel - I've often thought the same.
+ fantascienza troppo inverosimile e idealizzata per diventare realta.
Very cool illustrations. How fun.
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