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Old Posted Jun 1, 2010, 9:48 PM
Nowhereman1280 Nowhereman1280 is offline
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Originally Posted by village person View Post
What's really funny is that the difference between ^this vision of 2010 and the real 2010 is likely to be mirrored or even surpassed by the differences between our current visions of the future and the realization of that future. We have.... no clue!
Then again at the same time this picture was drawn up there were several people alive and formulating the plans for exactly what the future ended up being. For example, in 1910, Frank Lloyd Wright knew exactly what the future, his future, would bring. It would bring a suburban utopia of low lying Prairie Style (Ranch tract housing is just a budget attempt at that style) homes connected by a series of grid roads that fed out onto freeways that brought people to a different part of town specifically used for work. If you look at what actually ended up happing, Wright was dead on. Some people know what the future holds because they will be so influential that they will build it themselves.
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