For fans of the retro future...

[BeBopBaby]

I submit to you Paleo Future:

http://paleo-future.blogspot.com/

A site dedicated to the past's vision of the future. It contains many entries of the H.G. Wells-ian vision of the future that the Victorians had and many Popular Science-esque moderne visions of the future from the 30s and 40s.

 

[Miss Neecerie]

see this thread:

http://thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=18819

 

[Starius]

I love the sense of wonder and idealism in classic visions of utopia and the future. I really miss that it doesn't seem to be around today.

I try to hold on to similar ideals in my own life though, even if I too can be rather cynical about the future.

 

[Foofoogal]

I have always been disappointed we still don't fly around like the Jetsons.

I am also very amazed someone has not come up with something better than sheetrock or dry wall to put on walls. Messy archaic stuff IMHO. They at least do have paperless now after about 100 years or so.

 

[Starius]

I have always been disappointed we still don't fly around like the Jetsons.

I am also very amazed someone has not come up with something better than sheetrock or dry wall to put on walls. Messy archaic stuff IMHO. They at least do have paperless now after about 100 years or so.

My home is old enough that it doesn't have drywall. (except in a recent room remodel). It has wooden horizontal lattice-like strips across the support beams and all sealed over with horsehair plaster. Still standing, and probably still better for the environment than modern drywall.

I'm kinda okay with the lack of development in the flying car field, though. I'm a tad afraid of heights.

 

[Amy Jeanne]

Matt credited me with the Just Imagine clip! I felt so honoured!

That's a great blog. I love it.

 

[Dr Doran]

Marvelous stuff, BeBop! Love it. Thanks. For me retro-future is all about the films Brazil and of course Blade Runner.

 

[ITG]

see this thread:

http://thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=18819

Hey OB bartenders...looks like a job for merging threads.

 

[carter]

I firmly believe that the future will be just the way I remember it always should have been!

Who's with me?

 

[BegintheBeguine]

My home is old enough that it doesn't have drywall. (except in a recent room remodel). It has wooden horizontal lattice-like strips across the support beams and all sealed over with horsehair plaster. Still standing, and probably still better for the environment than modern drywall.

My house, from 1920, is like that too. Not a scrap of wallpaper either, incidentally, although I have collected several rolls of lovely patterns over the years. They reside in the linen closet.

 

[Dr Doran]

I still don't see why the hell we don't have functional offworld colonies.
I cannot abide the argument "we need to solve the problems on earth before we do that."
Working on one project does not preclude the other. They are not mutually exclusive.
Besides, to wait until "we had solved all the problems here" means eliminating the space program until some board of bureaucrats decides "OK, the problems are sufficiently solved," which will depend greatly on their definition of "solved" and everyone will define that differently.

Aside from the money to be made mining minerals, we could conceivably work on e.g. cold fusion on an asteroid far from here, and have it be utterly safe from harming the earth. The entire pessimistic outlook on declining energy supplies could completely reverse if we could import power that had been created offworld. (If, that is, the economics of bringing it back and forth could be made to work. Tricky.)
Plus, a single stupid comet could destroy all life on earth for a thousand years, effectively destroying human civilization; if we had offworld colonies, which would be cramped and horrible for a few generations but then would improve (see Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling) at least the human species and the memory of all its art and culture and the high and beautiful points of our civilizations could live on, small at first but perhaps bigger later.