A vision of transportation of the future - vintage 1952
Could still happen!
https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...ec080a09a5.jpg Cover art by Edward Emshwiller |
...or we'll have autonomous e-bike ride-sharing.
(But very cool find none the less!) |
Here is the context:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants Note that the woman is smoking a cigarette. The image does not represent a positive version of the future. Quite the opposite. |
Originally Posted by indyfabz
(Post 20778395)
Note that the woman is smoking a cigarette.
The image does not represent a positive version of the future. Quite the opposite. |
Originally Posted by indyfabz
(Post 20778395)
snip
The image does not represent a positive version of the future. Quite the opposite. |
I bet chiropractors would make a killing in that version of the future, what will all those people bent over their bikes all day. In that society, it appears as if the odds are much higher of ending up some dog-faced man w/room temp IQ pedaling a taxi bike, than being one of the spoiled rich people riding inside. Looks like Karl Marx's version of The Jetsons.
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Eisenhower progressive tax rate if not cut could have made that happen....and if his MIC warning was Heeded.
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Originally Posted by spelger
(Post 20779627)
so what. beautiful woman smoking a cigarette. personally can't stand 'em, but if you got 'em...
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You can read the story here:
Gravity Planet It was published as a serial, so here are the other issues: More Issues Jeff |
Originally Posted by indyfabz
(Post 20778395)
Here is the context:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants Note that the woman is smoking a cigarette. The image does not represent a positive version of the future. Quite the opposite. |
Originally Posted by Hoopdriver
(Post 20778322)
Could still happen!
https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...ec080a09a5.jpg Cover art by Edward Emshwiller |
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Originally Posted by eja_ bottecchia
(Post 20780025)
The plot description eerily parallels our current state...multinational corporations rule the world and governments exist only to protect these corporations. Prescient indeed. |
Originally Posted by indyfabz
(Post 20779972)
If you read the link I posted summarizing the novel you will notice that it mentions a future where corporations get people hooked on addictive substances.
Sugar? Nicotine? Bikes? :innocent: |
Water shortages? Narcotic coffee? Pedal-powered Cadillacs? Connies? Rockets to Venus? Sales meetings? What a dark vision of the future, I had to stop reading. But I did skip to the last page where you find out that Soylent Green is made from bicycle seats.
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Originally Posted by rollagain
(Post 20779707)
Indeed not. The aerodynamics of that thing are incredibly bad.
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TO be fair, that isn't too incredibly different from the pedal-cabs that are popping up in cities...
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Originally Posted by indyfabz
(Post 20778395)
Note that the woman is smoking a cigarette.
The image does not represent a positive version of the future. Quite the opposite. |
Originally Posted by eja_ bottecchia
(Post 20780025)
The plot description eerily parallels our current state...multinational corporations rule the world and governments exist only to protect these corporations. Prescient indeed. |
The 50's? Where are the flying cars we were supposed to have by now?
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Originally Posted by Milton Keynes
(Post 20780357)
That picture was drawn in 1952. Back then, just about everyone smoked. They had cigarette commercials on TV. Doctors smoked, in their offices, and maybe even in the operating room. I agree it's not a good view of the future, but just recognize the era it was drawn in.
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The "Connies" (commies?) are trying to persuade people from drinking or smoking, but the Metropolitan Corporate Police apparently shoot them on sight. This reads like a really preachy Star Trek episode.
https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...c56eb5d937.png "Alcohol made from GRAIN!?" |
Originally Posted by Lemond1985
(Post 20780595)
"Alcohol made from GRAIN!?"
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Originally Posted by eja_ bottecchia
(Post 20780027)
“Uptopia?” :foo: Dystopia? |
Originally Posted by Lemond1985
(Post 20779772)
I bet chiropractors would make a killing in that version of the future, what will all those people bent over their bikes all day. In that society, it appears as if the odds are much higher of ending up some dog-faced man w/room temp IQ pedaling a taxi bike, than being one of the spoiled rich people riding inside. Looks like Karl Marx's version of The Jetsons.
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