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- wild, on 10/12/2007, -2/+114Didnt I just see in a thread on here that in Japan they are building a pyramid city kinda like this?
EDIT:Here is the wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimizu_Mega-City_Pyramid - Depthfunction, on 10/12/2007, -2/+82Wow! I can't wait for the year 2000! I bet they'll have flying cars too!
- controlguy, on 10/12/2007, -8/+62I think it's odd that the "City of the Future" is shaped like a 3,000 year old pyramid.
- nebben, on 10/12/2007, -1/+51I've seen this before....
This is totally in SimCity 2000! - Jwoey, on 10/12/2007, -3/+43heh, new pyramids have a different shape?
- qasabah, on 10/12/2007, -9/+49Al Gore had one of these built. He's charging 1500 carbon offset credits for a room.
- thefirelane, on 10/12/2007, -3/+35>why haven't we made this yet?
Turns out, people care about the price of housing. - antoniojvr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27Welcome to the woooooorld of tomoroooooooowwwwwww!!!!!!
- Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26yeah, and I find it strange that bridges increase their structural integrity by using the billions of years old triangle shape
- sowdog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21Sure beats the truth. Fossil fuels, strip minig and over fishing. You guys go knock it, I'm gonna pretend the year 2050 will be great with cold fusion, world peace and robot lucy lius for all.
- thewump, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21Weird.. most movies of the future have everything grey and burned to a crisp
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19The point is, antifolkhero, that he WAS thinking.
Einstein himself told Fuller while he (fuller) was a student that his design for the geodesic dome was the most brilliant piece of architecture he'd ever seen.
Are YOU thinking? - dotorg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18ilyag: they already do that in parts of Asia.
Five years ago I was in one outside of Hong Kong... it was basically a train station, with a mall above it, and a bunch of apartment towers above that. That was the whole city. - emceepecks, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19Looks like a great place to settle in and play some Duke Nukem Forever on the Optimus keyboard!
- foolonthehill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Reminds me of this project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Ship
- chimpadink, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18Welcome to the world of TOMMOROW!!....
- dhice, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17I bet he's going to be a wonderful jackass just like his dad
- Philodox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13When I was in grade 11 (~1997) my chemistry textbook had pages in it talking about how we'd have flying cars by the 1980's.
- napier, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Oh no! They've discovered my secret lair!
- cbreaker, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Apparently, it's the WORLD OF SEVEN YEARS AGO.
- christianw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11someone should mention they ended up building this in the desert instead of the ocean and they put some really sweet nightclubs, poker tables, and slot machines inside of it.
- Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14bathrooms that way
- Borfo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10That's funny... I totally remember borrowing that book from the library when I was a kid...
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/7c/c6/a079228348a06d4ff8561110.L.jpg - localcelebrity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10why haven't we made this yet? i want to go there
- doublsh0t, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10looks like the luxor in vegas
- cwshea, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11What's with the mineral obsession?
- antifolkhero, on 10/12/2007, -16/+25Cool link, but man, what the hell was buckminster fuller thinking?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14We were busy destroying Iraq.
- happyperson, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Favorite t-shirt ever: "This was supposed to be the future"
- edg3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9its better than an imageshack link...
- insovietrussia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Actually the concept in the illustration was by Paola Soleri, who went on to do a lot of cool other stuff - namely the Arcosanti, an urban dwelling in the middle of the Arizona desert.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Soleri
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcosanti - LucerinRed, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10did you never read any of the 70's propaganda, they thought that we would run out of land and all our natural resources. I mean, see the movie Soylent Green and then maybe you'll understand.
- purdo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7reminds me of The Durrat al Bahrain Resort
http://www.atkins-me.com/ProjectDetail.aspx?ProjectID=76 - thewump, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I wonder if they will have solved the Digg effect by then?
- cbreaker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7And if you were an RIAA lawyer (or one of the brainwashed) you would have said "Blatant image THEFT!"
- o0joshua0o, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7This reminds me of Disney's Tomorrowland. It's quaint and depressing at the same time.
- Terr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I love the style of those '70s drawings (I'm from '84). My grandmother used to have a stack of old comics that were also drawn this way (I forgot the name), and I was always intrigued by the cool looking vehicles and amazing buildings. Modern day drawings don't do much to my imagination.
- OrlyonokEaglet, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Now that we have computers and networks that whole concept of putting everything in one place is irrelevant.
And why build that on water instead of land?
Seabed minerals and fish farming... is that all he could think of? - Xinareiaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I have this book! It's awesome. I should scan a bunch of it and post it....
- drmangrum, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7The idea itself isn't that far fetched. The technical problems could be overcome, its the financing and convincing people to move into one that's the tough part.
- Jwoey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5what he's depicted isnt actually that farfetched, just very impractical.
- Dgen_X, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6It's a good thing Futurama has taught us better, we all know it would become overpopulated and sink into the ocean...hopefully the magician gets out alive
- insovietrussia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Looks like the Luxor in Las Vegas:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Luxor_Hotel.jpg - diggerphelps, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Just a thought, but maybe the "goatse.cx" domain had something to do with the lack of diggs.
- Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -27/+32I command you to bury me
- SimplyBuzz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Title says 21st century not have to be year 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007... probably 2100
- MioTheGreat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Well if they knew, they wouldn't be in the predicament they are in at the end of season 3....
- cavar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Yeah but look carefully: it's goaSTe.cx.
"ST" not "TS". - FenianNProud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5For those of you doubting the viability of people living 'in a mall', consider the boom in "Live-Work-Play" business development as proof positive the people will indeed pay good money to not have to leave a 3-5 block area to do everything from shop, eat out, work, etc.
In Atl. alone there are more than 3 dozen such developments and several more opening up by year's end with condo/loft prices going for $250-$1mil+. If people weren't buying into it, the developers wouldn't be building it. - pmcall221, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7I saw "Archology" and thought the same thing. They were a waste of money in the game and in real life
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