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blowed247Jul 14, 2010
dugg for Popular Science
jc7012Jul 15, 2010
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xevidentxJul 15, 2010
ok mr internet tough guy. go lift some weights and read maxim while chugging a redbull and vodka.
juankovoJul 15, 2010
More PopSci, online free: http://books.google.com/books/serial/wzsEAAAAMBAJ?rview=1
pantone109Jul 15, 2010
dugg for 1925
briantest1Jul 17, 2010
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EvologyNowJul 14, 2010
There are actually some pretty good ideas in there.
ubernogginJul 14, 2010
Dugg for freight tubes.
tomacco79Jul 15, 2010
These sort of exist, well garbage tubes at least, it's a KIND of freight.
Ok, not really, but garbage tubes are cool
http://spacingmontreal.ca/2008/09/20/suck-it-up-underground-trash-vaccuuming-to-replace-dump-trucks-in-qds/
sexyboboJul 15, 2010
Some cities tried out Pneumatic Mail. Way to expensive for the end result.
http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/museum/1d_Pneumatic_Mail.html
graemeeJul 15, 2010
They used that in the film The Fifth Element. I guess some still dream of it being usable.
Closed AccountJul 15, 2010
New York even tried Pneumatic Rail as their first subway attempt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_Pneumatic_Transit
stokestackJul 21, 2010
"Way to expensive for the end result."
TOO expensive. T, O, O. It's not that hard.
theobviouschildJul 15, 2010
Dugg for 3-wheeled cars and making me think of Mr. Bean.
litkajJul 15, 2010
Watch it. The reason there's no curves in that sketch is because they'll flip over like the Stig in a Reliant Robin.
goat2Jul 15, 2010
the who in a what?
berryhillJul 15, 2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stig
thecosmicpopeJul 23, 2010
Mr Bean had a Mini with 4 wheels, not a Reliant Robin. The Robin was in Only Fools and Horses.
iriemeditationJul 15, 2010
i want human tubes like Futurama :o)
blackhalozJul 22, 2010
"i want human tubes like Futurama :o)"
Sure, it's all fun and games until you get stuck in a tube-jam, between Zoidberg and Brannagan...
dbre2Jul 15, 2010
At least we have the Alameda-Weehawken burrito tunnel
pbhawks45Jul 15, 2010
Which tube does the Internet go to?
/Ted Stevens
vbullingerJul 14, 2010
Popular Science is always fun today, but tomorrow you realize how ridiculously stupid everything they say is.
danielhunterJul 15, 2010
I don't know about stupid, just unrealistic.
They have some awesome ideas, but they're a bit overly idealistic about the pace of human innovation.
zebragrrlJul 15, 2010
That's what makes it "Popular".
letsdienowJul 15, 2010
If they simply had magazines showing what will probably end up happening in the future, who will aspire to do great things?
jatteaJul 15, 2010
Apparently in future-1950, it makes more sense to park radially...
sushimaster89Jul 15, 2010
They have that in Japan. Saves a lot of space because the system parks your car for you once you put the car in the center. No roads needed.
rif42Jul 23, 2010
Autostadt at Wolfsburg DE has two circular "parking" tower. Actually it a delivery centre for new cars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAQ0ewhZWs4
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autostadt
sucka27Jul 15, 2010
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toonJul 15, 2010
Caesars Palace has one. The future is here! Yesterday!
christoastJul 15, 2010
yeah but the singularity is near. now is the only time in history where technology is going really, really fast. http://www.ted.com/talks/ray_kurzweil_on_how_technology_will_transform_us.html
rholland356Jul 15, 2010
Looks like they just about nailed today's Mixed-Use Multi-Family housing projects, except for the school level. And I do believe that their artist must have taken a job with the boys in Detroit, designing 1940's-style autos.
Spiral escalators, though. Imagine how ill that would make folks. I guess you could slip off an upper level and fall perpetually, like some kind of 1950's Homer SImpson--maybe a Wimpy or a Bluto.
rwhitisissleJul 15, 2010
Popular Science is far less concerned with advancements in scientific knowledge and new technology than it is with the human capacity to dream up convoluted techno-crap. On the other hand, at least it's not boring.
serinusJul 15, 2010
That's why it's called "Popular Science".
diggscrapJul 14, 2010
still waiting..............
generalalcazarJul 15, 2010
Actually, it seems pretty accurate:
* Skyscraper offices and apartment buildings? Check.
* Tunnels for cars beneath the city? Check.
* Below-ground garages? Check.
* Electric subway trains? Check.
* Rooftop heli-pads? Check.
* Rooftop gardens? Check.
In fact, it looks quite a bit like New York of today. Of course, it is not 100% accurate, but it is pretty damn close.
reylorJul 15, 2010
I choose to blame the Great Depression for this not being achieved by 1950.
sexyboboJul 15, 2010
Blame what you want but WW2 is why you have a pc in front of you.
betauserJul 15, 2010
Sexybobo is being dug down, but it partly correct. WW2 is pretty much responsible for creating and educating (GI Bill) the middle class. A lot of what we use today is cheap because inventive manufacturing methods were created to mass produce them.
joejitsuJul 15, 2010
It would have been more accurate if they portrayed a huge sprawl. Freeways everywhere, strip malls for miles, and never ending developments of cookie cutter houses.
eddiepotatoJul 15, 2010
"WW2 is pretty much responsible"
I think sexybobo is getting buried because the attribution is overly-broad. In the grand scheme, one could argue that the American Revolution was directly responsible for every US invention of the past 200 years or so.
jhsimpson0Jul 15, 2010
The main difference between this picture and a city like New York is that everything in the picture is so neatly integrated together, whereas in real life, stuff like this gets built separately and over time.
tiduJul 15, 2010
"Tunnels for cars"
This isn't entirely true... tunnels only exist when absolutely necessary; making miles and miles of tunnels will end in all the drivers asphyxiating in their cars from all the CO
serinusJul 15, 2010
I <3 some sexybobo, but Eddie is right.
theobviouschildJul 15, 2010
I'm going to get in my time machine and go back to 1950 so I can enjoy all of these conveniences!
kaleidescopepieJul 15, 2010
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dabekJul 15, 2010
Imagine the panic button on the key. I'd hate to be standing near the wrong dirigible...
tomacco79Jul 15, 2010
They went off the market rather abruptly in 1937,something to do with humanity.
kornstalxJul 15, 2010
http://i.imgur.com/SMJMP.jpg
tomacco79Jul 15, 2010
That pic was more tragic than the real pic :(
mdowlin2Jul 15, 2010
As in, "That dress looks SO dirigible!"
Closed AccountJul 15, 2010
blame ugly mammals for yet another disaster: http://www.sdtimes.com/blog/post/2010/image.axd?picture=2010%2F5%2Fhuge-manatee.jpg
x00xJul 15, 2010
Dugg for amusingly clever wordplay.
skillelJul 15, 2010
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redgiant947Jul 15, 2010
Unless I'm missing something, he posted it 8 minutes more ago.
2wrongsJul 15, 2010
Oddly enough, the Air Force is planning to use them:
http://www.military.com/news/article/March-2009/air-force-planning-giant-spy-airship.html
Actually sounds kind of cool. NPR did a Science Friday segment about them recently; they said there's some interesting applications like transporting goods directly from factory to store w/o needing much of a landing strip.
Some of it sounded dubiously optimistic, but if fuel prices go through the roof, you may see some of them around.
davidg11Jul 15, 2010
OHHHHHHHH THE HUMANITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
tomtutsJul 15, 2010
That actually looks pretty awesome...
idugggJul 15, 2010
Too bad we haven't even reached that level of complexity in 2010.
jasonrjnetJul 15, 2010
And no one will have the money to before 3010.
bookashadeJul 15, 2010
*3030
ricoduedJul 15, 2010
The problem is that it's really hard for a major city to completely revamp itself to anything resembling the picture. Obviously, the costs would be huge. But the public outrage over socialists trying to buy out mom and pop stores so entire buildings could be demolished and rebuilt to the mayor's grand vision of an ultra-city.
You would basically have to start from scratch, and that would never work since you wouldn't have any guarantee of a large enough population to sustain the massive project. All cities have to start as small villages first, and therein lies the problem.
wtfryanJul 15, 2010
It's okay, Booka. I dugg you. Everyone else isn't hip enough to get the reference.
skillelJul 15, 2010
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schaviraJul 15, 2010
digg, have you met Deltron-Zero? (and Automator, for that matter...)
sparkmonkeyzJul 15, 2010
Until a plane crashes into the side of a building, taking out the 3 floors under it, filled with people and explosive cars.
ch0riz0Jul 15, 2010
It looked awesome when I built it using SimTower 14 years ago.
ryancawdorJul 15, 2010
Yeah, but there ain't any dames those offices... probably because (as everyone knows) their uterus will explode if they go above the 2nd floor.
tdogg241Jul 15, 2010
No joke. I would gladly live in an urban core that dense and walkable.
tcsucksJul 15, 2010
Actually, it's nice to see that efficiency, on that level, was abandoned long before I was born.
thanatosstJul 15, 2010
I love Popular Science.
fbass2000Jul 15, 2010
So by 1975, we would have flying cars
shadeofgreyJul 15, 2010
Yes but they could only fly underground.
chordonblueJul 15, 2010
Awesome.
niksaJul 15, 2010
In underground tubes.
mizuhriJul 15, 2010
Sweet I can't wait for 1975.
getoffmybridgeJul 15, 2010
Roads?
bluskreenofdethJul 15, 2010
My predictions:
50% of all new cars sold will be electric/hybrid: 2025
First hover car sold to general public, but a fatal design flaw prevents widespread adoption: 2040.
All new vehicles sold with either be hybrid or full-electric: 2050.
trollbaneJul 15, 2010
You contradict yourself by saying you believe hover cars will become sold to the public, but think we're going to move to more energy efficient motors. A car which is perpetually hovering will require more energy than one with wheels.
Closed AccountJul 15, 2010
Not if it runs on garbage.
Closed AccountJul 15, 2010
Not if you smear vaseline under the car.
rockynJul 15, 2010
We can burn water dude.... and the tech already exists.
tomacco79Jul 15, 2010
@Jhiaxuz dugg for Landspeeder reference
@deerslaya dugg for Mr. Fusion reference
williemainJul 15, 2010
Not if you use magnets, who knows how the f**k they work...
kimbomittJul 15, 2010
The biggest change in cars won't be energy source, but moving towards cars driving themselves. Between GPS, cruise control, self parallel parking, sensors on all sides, even automatic transmission, we are subtly moving in that direction.
One day we'll look back and wonder how we let something so dangerous as people driving cars happen, when it killed so many people (I believe ~40,000 a year).
takamalakJul 15, 2010
Agreed. Driving is over rated. How awesome would boring commutes be when they are handled by computers with none of the human induced slowdowns you typically see in traffic. Or long trips. Go into your vehicle, enter your destination, sit back and read a book or play a game. Even catch up on some work.
dae3dae3Jul 15, 2010
Hopefully GPS will no longer try to take your car the wrong way down a one way street or through the middle of a building by the time they remove the steering wheel from the car.
scuba7183Jul 15, 2010
My car will drive itself when you pry the steering wheel from my cold, dead hands
zardayJul 15, 2010
Self driving car = more time for Digg on 6G.
appleofdischordJul 15, 2010
Won't happen because states get too much revenue from traffic violations.
muzzyJul 15, 2010
Why would we want cars that drive themselves, instead of just increasing mass transit deployment, which serves the same purpose at a much lower cost and at much higher efficiency?
Cars *should* serve a very specific role: short distance, low speed travel to/from transit hubs.
There aren't many car related deaths at 25mph driving in the city. They're at 75mph on the highway... where trains and buses should be doing the work.
byobyobJul 15, 2010
People already have an average commute time of something like 1 hour per work day; I'm not going to take mass transit until it can offer an equal or faster commute time to cars. Frankly I'm not sure how you're ever going to accomplish that, given that (1) any mass transit system will always have to stop to let passengers on/off (2) Getting from the transit hub to my actual destination can mean several transfers and lots of lost time.
schmichJul 15, 2010
I find it strange that motorbikes are legal when you compare to other things that are illegal.
(not that I think motorbikes should be illegal)
maximusdJul 15, 2010
Stanford's cars (Stanley and Shelly) are doing some pretty awesome things in just this decade. Check out Shelly's goal of racing Pike's peak http://www.physorg.com/news184438040.html
CrawleradoJul 15, 2010
"One day we'll look back and wonder how we let something so dangerous as people driving cars happen, when it killed so many people."
AMEN
Here's a great example from this morning:
http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=143717&provider=top&catid=188
mxm111Jul 15, 2010
And when is the singularity?
pgm_01Jul 15, 2010
10:04pm tomorrow, at the clock tower.
cloudberriesJul 23, 2010
It'll happen in 25 years when that one guy that's always banging on about the singularity, whose name I can't remember, tries to upload his brain to a hard-drive, fails spectacularly and then we all get back to living normal lives with boring life expectancies.
pakobedejoJul 15, 2010
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spectralsoundsJul 15, 2010
I haven't laughed this hard in a while. Thanks.
unterdenlindenJul 15, 2010
@SpectralSounds You need more FUNNY if UR LYFE LOLZZZZZZ
tadsexington69Jul 15, 2010
-The movie, "2012 (2009)" will continue to be unwatched
blackhalozJul 22, 2010
-Kurt Russel hosts a reality show called "Escape From <City>": July 2011
Gotta be Detroit. I was in the airport yesterday watching a flight boarding for the Motor City, thinking, "you poor bastards."
nanan00Jul 15, 2010
Flying cars will come shortly after 100% autonomous flight become cheap and easy.
People can't drive in a 2D world, given a 3D environment the majority of people can't cope.
skillelJul 15, 2010
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kellsterJul 15, 2010
More like this:
http://www.terrafugia.com/
I'm a pilot, and I want one of those. Would change my life. Live 100 miles from where I work in a bigger house in a better area for less money. No brainer.
aimlessabyssJul 15, 2010
Keep dreaming.
clumsytimeJul 15, 2010
@nanan00: you mis-spelled "women"
alabareJul 15, 2010
My prediction? 2012: Zombies. That is all.
faithclubdotnetJul 15, 2010
Homer Simpson buys first hover car despite flaws.
Closed AccountJul 15, 2010
Sorry, but car accidents in the sky = certain death. It will never happen.
joest23Jul 15, 2010
I'm wondering if they would have been able to accomplish that by 1950 if they had the necessary funding. Doing all of that in 25 years is REALLY optimistic.
socalcoveJul 15, 2010
Not really, a lot of what they show is doable for the time. Its just a matter of building the infrastructure, just put it in certain high density places (several concept areas in NY could use this). But of course it would take a massive amount of acceptance and capital to secure the land and build such a specialized transportation grid. And tunnels that deep would be a challenge but very doable.
rockynJul 15, 2010
Not to mention all of the pockets that would need to be greased.
danielbroadbentJul 15, 2010
The airport runway on top of a building in the middle of the city might be cause for hesitation.
oea420Jul 15, 2010
Looking at this picture the first thing that came to mind was 'ventilation'
Either the cars/trains have their own o2 supply (but i see peds on the lower levels in this pic) or there is some sort of massive ventilation system this guy dreamed up... what do you with all those emissions? talk about cancer
iriemeditationJul 15, 2010
optimism is dying. : /
bluelightnin90Jul 15, 2010
look at Dubai
joejitsuJul 15, 2010
Besides a few tall skyscrapers Dubai isn't that futuristic. Its more a gimmick than an actual city. If Disney wanted to make a city it would be Dubai.
samwJul 15, 2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebration,_Florida
gmacneillJul 15, 2010
I'm sure the Great Depression that started 4 years later didn't help a hell of a lot either.
Closed AccountJul 15, 2010
And then a world war which lasted until the late 40s.
alexthehoopyJul 15, 2010
If only. That looks pretty darn good.
dsfxJul 15, 2010
Great population reduction scheme--Carbon Monoxide poisoning in the lower levels :)
abeast34Jul 15, 2010
That's exactly what I was thinking! I guess they would have to place ventilation shafts all over to prevent that...if they wanted to prevent it
seanofJul 15, 2010
The Lincoln tunnel requiers huge fans that take up a whole building to keep the air breathable, the artist of this piece didn't seem to understand how much air cars need.
alexthehoopyJul 15, 2010
If we can manage to drastically change the majority of cities to a system like that, surely we can put in a decent ventilation system/air purification system. Not to mention they probably were assuming electric cars, or at least cars with drastically lower emissions.
ipecacneatJul 15, 2010
We tried in Boston. The Big Dig sucks.
unfriendlyfireJul 15, 2010
Cool, I can't wait.
caseycooldJul 15, 2010
Where are my spiral escalators?!
Closed AccountJul 15, 2010
Here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/adelmann/2671502484/
fadetooneJul 15, 2010
I believe I've seen some in Vegas. It was probably just a single half curve instead of a spiral though.
diuleiJul 15, 2010
Yea, they have spiral escalators at the Forums Shops at Caesar's Palace.
fafafafredJul 15, 2010
Dugg for "In action:"
They're pretty intense.
furburgerhelperJul 15, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdb6-dVYreU
embretrJul 15, 2010
The Reno Revolving Staircase i Holloway in London:
http://districtdave.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=History&action=print&thread=2596
(It never got approved for public use, though)
helmsbJul 15, 2010
There's one at the Forum Shops at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9epUGcZtJDY
jakebcJul 15, 2010
Also two of the curved ones at the River Rock Casino in Vancouver.
syntaxgsJul 15, 2010
thee Propre is pretzal stair,,, the Pretzal stair is inposible,,,,,,, becosue it not Like the normal elavater
peterzzJul 15, 2010
We have flying cars right now, plenty! They're called helicopters ;)
dabekJul 15, 2010
When people always said "We'll have flying cars!" I think they met readily available and easy to operate, like the car The Jetsons had.
takamalakJul 15, 2010
And can fit in a briefcase?
caramba421Jul 15, 2010
I think the barrier is that we're still waiting for brains that accommodate for operating complex machinery to become widely available. We still can't manage two dimension navigation without 50,000 people dying per year.
skankingmikeJul 15, 2010
a city like that would be best built new not over existing as the under structure will need to be super reinforced strong or on a bed rock.
All of which New York does not have.
Noises2010Jul 15, 2010
Yea except NYC is totally on bed rock, it's just the middle of the city that doesn't have any.
skankingmikeJul 15, 2010
how about the fact that there's a fault line by it? I mean same reason you don't want to build crazy high building and multilevel roadways in san fran either.
skektekJul 15, 2010
@Skankingmike
I don't think there is fault line any where near NYC let alone the east coast.
ph1sh55Jul 15, 2010
did you really just say new york does not have bed rock?
davethe3rdJul 15, 2010
When are they building New New York again?
fierorumorJul 15, 2010
Sometime after the second coming of Jesus?
kingmanicJul 15, 2010
It's not actually that wrong. In most major cities you have heli pads on some buildings. Multi-tier free ways. Escalators do appear in many places. Light Rail Transit exits in most major cities as well.
the wrongest thing would be the freight tubes and the level of layering.
dabekJul 15, 2010
And the fact that they have on building in which you never have to go anywhere, with restaurants, offices, schools, and living quarters all in one building. I'd say that's the wrongest thing.
kingmanicJul 15, 2010
In the center of my city there is a interlinked complex of 3 malls, a upgrading high school, a hotel, and 5 office buildings. Interlinked by pedways, underground tunnels, or by being directly connected. Several apartment complexes within 10m of a underground exit from this complex as well.
We also have a 350,000 sq Meter mall with a hotel, a water park, a mini golf centre, a themepark, movie theatres, a fleet of subs, a boat, and a ice rink.
In concept thats not too far fetched.
youjimbouJul 15, 2010
Where abouts is this city of yours ? Finland?
kingmanicJul 15, 2010
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
kgtheway2bJul 15, 2010
-40 deg needs no Celsius designation. -40°F = -40°C
(Just fyi)
Closed AccountJul 15, 2010
Well, if you think of places like the John Hanc**k Center in Chicago, it's really not all that far-fetched. That place has pretty much all you'd ever need without ever leaving. A life indoors without ever seeing the sun. It's like a digger's paradise.
Closed AccountJul 15, 2010
I just experienced such a building when I got to work for a week in Tokyo. Our company offices are in one tower of a building and my hotel was in the other. On the ground floors there were many shops and restaurants. I could have easily worked the whole week in that building and never left it if I didn't want to. It made me think of Asimov's The Caves of Steel.
Even the monorail came right into the building, so I could get from the building to the airport without ever having open sky above me.
mxlytnJul 15, 2010
i hate to bash edmonton being that i live here, but downtown is such a small area of the entire city. the bulk of the city is ridiculous urban sprawl which is hardly accessible by light rail without any office towers or freight tubes.
cocodamonkeyJul 15, 2010
@kingmanic: I actually live in Edmonton too and when I read your post I was wondering where the heck you were talking about. Now that I think about it, I guess everything you said is true but it sounds so much cooler the way you wrote it then the what it actually is.
Also, I think the fleet of subs at the mall is down to only 2 working ones. Not sure if that counts as a fleet anymore. They're also really tiny, it's like a 5 foot ceiling in those things, very uncomfortable.
kingmanicJul 15, 2010
@mxlytn: True but if a little berg like ours has a large portion of the things in the illustrations it probably means they weren't that far off. We do have pretty ridiculous sprawl. 730k people over 850 sqkm or 1 million over 9,417.88 sqkm Metropolitan area.
@cocadaMonkey: The key to keeping the mystique of your home town is to squint really hard all the time.
poopiewarriorJul 15, 2010
the wrongest thing is that this was what they thought 1950 would look like...
adokimusJul 15, 2010
Freight tubes = interwebs
::emails Paul:::
Closed AccountJul 15, 2010
And if you look at the previous picture on that site it shows the concept for highway interchange ramps that is 100% exactly how we do them today. The elevated parks, on the other hand, are not exactly common place. But to see the highway ramps (a common part of highway driving today) be described as "a conception of how highways from the city of the future will be arranged" is weird to me.
jakebcJul 15, 2010
A lot of the new condo projects in Vancouver incorporate retail on the first few floors and condos above.
farfle10Jul 15, 2010
what first struck me about these pics wasn't "lol this is so silly", but rather "wow this is pretty accurate." Yeah, the levels aren't perfect but give him credit for the electric trains way underground (subway) and the parking garages. and yeah the first picture shows pretty much the exact highway ramps we use today and it even says "buildings half a mile high" which we also have. i think this submission was to highlight the accuracy of it all which i think went over most diggers' heads
liquisoftJul 15, 2010
The vision of the future is always amazing, no matter what era you live in.
The idea illustrated in this image isn't really that bad. I mean, it looks like a ton of infrastructure would have to be modified, meaning whole cities would have to be torn up, but beyond that the concept is pretty solid. They don't account for noise pollution, though. Can you imagine living near an airfield like the ones imagined on top of buildings? Oh, not to mention where the emissions from the underground cars would go. The tunnels would be wrought with visibility problems due to all the smoke/smog.
nmpraveenJul 15, 2010
Hey , in 1950 we would have Electric cars and Planes..So no smoke or noise..
danielhunterJul 15, 2010
But blimps don't make that much noise.
liquisoftJul 15, 2010
Actually they make as much noise as a prop plane does. Blimps use propellers too, but not for flight, but rather for forward momentum.
danielhunterJul 15, 2010
I was unaware. I just pictured these completely silent helium balloons floating around cities.
hunahpuJul 15, 2010
what the smog situation would likely be like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJCVgYf8zUw#t=0m50s
agarcJul 15, 2010
Eh... I see nothing but problems. What if there's an accident in one of the car tunnels? It would be very difficult to get emergency services in place.
What, I can't dine from a penthouse restaurant in the future?
What if there's a fire in the restaurant? Suddenly all the people above are in jeopardy.
Something tells me that spiral escalators would be very difficult to maintain. :)
kimbomittJul 15, 2010
This came to mind:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWIunS66Kgo
starting at about 0:55
dabekJul 15, 2010
Two things always come to mind when I hear that song. GTA4 and the scene where Dr. Manhattan becomes Dr. Manhattan in The Watchmen. The article does not add a third.
sage920Jul 15, 2010
Try Koyaanisqatsi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t29fgA5M7VA
thatsmyaiboJul 15, 2010
I love that lane for fast cars and lane for slow cars. I only wish we had that in LA.
And Zeppelins for all!
bonestampJul 15, 2010
The problem is that very few slow drivers actually think they are slow drivers and they will slow down the actual fast drivers. Of course, good enforcement could fix this.
thatsmyaiboJul 15, 2010
So what you're saying is Asian drivers should have their own road?
I keed!
sigmaman2Jul 15, 2010
Oh my goodness...
Except for the landing fields, this it the plan for the San Francisco Transit Center!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFD8cXwpQUQ
taketheleapJul 15, 2010
According to "Back to The Future", I should be getting my cold-fusion flying-car in a couple of years... (October 2015 to be exact).
firstruleJul 15, 2010
darn, you beat me to it! Don't forget the hoverboards too!
drdragunJul 15, 2010
What is the subliminal handwritten-then-erased text (looks like an O around the word "Offices", maybe 2000?)?
mizuhriJul 15, 2010
Stupid 1925, thinking we would use our space efficiently.
pxtlJul 15, 2010
what /s? They were wrong. Apparently what the real future looked like is parking lots. Lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of lots. Big warehouse-shaped stores that have endless acreage of asphalt surrounding them, such that no sane pedestrian would ever bother to meander across the oceans of blacktop.
That's what the future turned out to be. They didn't' have a single parking space in their design.
Isn't it grand?
schmichJul 15, 2010
I don't know. In cities tend to see anything but parking lots.
imaprinceschikJul 15, 2010
I know I will get dugg down on this Q, but what is this /s?
Maybe I played to much or not enough WoW but I understood it as a command to speak? I also understand it as a board for some pretty ladies but I doubt either of those are going on here...
3atwo1Jul 15, 2010
/s=sarcasm
mtxrawkusJul 15, 2010
This was also before people were morbidly obese, or even overweight for that matter. Walking was part of life, not an annoyance.
eagle193Jul 15, 2010
The space design is impressively designed, but what about the air pollution that would build up below-ground?
Closed AccountJul 15, 2010
Reminds me of that one simcity 3000 simulation where that guy made the most ridiculous city ever, and annotated the video with creepy messages...
zackhowJul 15, 2010
I'm sure they would think twice about having an aircraft landing field in each major city.
therealdbJul 15, 2010
Bloomberg- use that iPad of yours and get on this!
aitironbirdJul 15, 2010
If humans co-plan like ants do then this would be a reality.
siegfried777Jul 15, 2010
This would have been accomplished by hitler in 1950 or before that even if world war II had not happened. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welthauptstadt_Germania
underground highways and all, this article isn't a stretch from anything that couldn't be done back then.
sexyboboJul 15, 2010
Germany had absolutely no money by the time Hitler got to office it was part of the reason he was able to take power.
nope586Jul 15, 2010
Yea, they would have went broke before they even began.
anomalouscloudsJul 15, 2010
At least we got those tubes.
kleon777Jul 15, 2010
Many of those ideas can be seen in cities today. Columbus Drive in Chicago, for example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_Drive_%28Chicago%29
theleeJul 15, 2010
Don't forget Wacker Drive, and the area near Lakeview East which has a triple-decker street.
pmcall221Jul 15, 2010
And Randolph too.
isenborgJul 15, 2010
One day we al will TRAVEL IN TUBES! -Jack Black
Closed AccountJul 15, 2010
Reality sucks.
theelliottJul 15, 2010
Apparently, if we want to make fast motors we should be putting only one wheel in the front.
sexyboboJul 15, 2010
http://images.thetruthaboutcars.com/2009/10/Reliant-Robin-1e.jpg
skinturtleJul 15, 2010
They are still drawing this stuff to this day.
It's the marriage of corporation and government that stands in the way of progress. When a technology is invented and has potential to make things cheaper for us to consume you can assured that some corporation's business model is threatened. They then go to their political friends and create laws to circumvent it.
Or...they just go and buy a patent for things not yet invented.
It's basically the same thing that kept people in the first dark ages only at that time it was the church responsible.
nope586Jul 15, 2010
Hence why most traditional large corporations are threatened by the Internet.
letsdienowJul 15, 2010
the whole way we live right now is threatened by the internet.... It's starting to even out....
Knowledge is key to progress
eplurbispablumJul 23, 2010
Yep. This world would be a paradise for pretty much everyone if we could govern ourselves intelligently. So far, no. It's always the most powerful, who are usually there because they are the most ruthless and corrupt and the masses are too ignorant or too weak to do anything about it.
beermakerJul 15, 2010
the cheapest thing ever
letsdienowJul 15, 2010
ummm, have you been to a city lately? they all pretty much look like this!!!!!!!!!!!!!
beermakerJul 15, 2010
LOL.. i am talking about the cost. and BTW 3 underground levels, there is a science to make roads, and even when lie on the ground, roads are expensive, that kind of roads had no support below. Belive me, it will be very expensive
cjohnson78Jul 15, 2010
All the slow cars would just try to drive on the fast level - because they are indignant that they are driving fast enough.
letsdienowJul 15, 2010
I can't wait until cars finally drive themselves, or we finally decide that trains already basically do this.....
Which one will come first? Probably niether, we'll find a new way to waste our time with, and it still won't work.........but instead of fixing that, we'll be in the same loop, FOREVER, FOREVER, FOREVER
<sigh>
plainoldfoolJul 15, 2010
Almost straight out of Metropolis.
pinkertinkleJul 15, 2010
i want that spiral escalator
scuba7183Jul 15, 2010
I want the purple stuff
zbeastJul 15, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdb6-dVYreU
assassyn360Jul 15, 2010
I'm still waiting on my great, great, great grandfathers forty acre and a mule!
sexyboboJul 15, 2010
Read #2
http://www.cracked.com/article_18606_8-historic-symbols-that-mean-opposite-what-you-think_p2.html
assassyn360Jul 15, 2010
It's sad. All my years of school to obtain a B.A. in History... we never discussed that. Thanks.
assassyn360Jul 15, 2010
f**k the 40 acres and a mule! I want my 160 acres of federal land! LOL!
Seriously, thanks for that. I will now began an organized plan to address this with my fellow black Americans and eradicate the statement from further misuse.
alphacubeJul 15, 2010
Hmm... I don't think we may live to see.
kaiosamaJul 15, 2010
Little did they realize 4 years from then they'd be suffering a depression...
...Followed by the worst war in human history the very next decade :-(
jordanlgtaJul 15, 2010
Is it really thought that World War II was the worst?
haysJul 15, 2010
I think so. What else could compare in scale?
meelarliteJul 15, 2010
Nearly 60 million military and civilian casualties.
The Holocaust.
Two Nuclear Bombs.
speedsteamboatJul 15, 2010
Wasn't it?
Only use of nuclear weapons. The majority of the European peninsula turned to rubble. A systematic genocide taking place in the background. Over 73 million people killed. The entire world engulfed in conflict give or take.
If that wasn't the worst then it certainly must rank near the top.
Closed AccountJul 15, 2010
To put it into perspective, by far the biggest conflict in history prior to World War II, was 'the Great War' with 16 million deaths total. In World War II, the estimated deaths of Russia alone numbered 26.6 million.
kaiosamaJul 15, 2010
Not only Japan, but the Chinese, the Filipinos, the Koreans etc... suffered tremendously as well.
oneilcoolJul 15, 2010
Depends what you mean by worst. Many of my history teachers in the past have thought World War I was the worst mostly because it was meaningless. Nationalism and militarism are hardly good reasons to start a war.
Wolrd War II on the other hand actually had a purpose, to stop the Nazi's which we (America) believed to be evil. World War I was mostly fighting for the sake of fighting.
kaiosamaJul 15, 2010
By worst I'm referring to most devastating on a global scale.
There've been quite a few meaningless wars over the course of human history... but nothing on the scale of destruction that ensued on account of the second world war.
beinssJul 15, 2010
WHY DON'T WE HAVE THESE THINGS??
Man we suck, someone should have stuck this up as a poster in every engineer's office and said make this happen. Hell fill it in with color and do that now. I would very much like to ride a *looks at picture* Spiral Escalator.
jestaverickJul 15, 2010
Spiral Escalators FTW
hetmanJul 15, 2010
That is awesome. That is how we should have designed our cities. I like the whole fast moving and slow moving streets for cars.
slapdedJul 15, 2010
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iambsJul 15, 2010
I would like to see that layout in 2050!
rudegarJul 21, 2010
http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/ace-books/1022-1.jpg
iambsJul 21, 2010
Ill be in the freight tubes
YaTiddleJul 15, 2010
No joke. I used to read it but after going through some old archives I realized I might as well pick up some good SciFi instead.