A vision of transportation of the future - vintage 1952
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A vision of transportation of the future - vintage 1952
Could still happen!
Cover art by Edward Emshwiller
Cover art by Edward Emshwiller
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...or we'll have autonomous e-bike ride-sharing.
(But very cool find none the less!)
(But very cool find none the less!)
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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.
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.
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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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You can read the story here:
Gravity Planet
It was published as a serial, so here are the other issues: More Issues
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Gravity Planet
It was published as a serial, so here are the other issues: More Issues
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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.
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.
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You can read the story here:
Gravity Planet
Gravity Planet
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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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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 50's? Where are the flying cars we were supposed to have by now?
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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.
"Alcohol made from GRAIN!?"
"Alcohol made from GRAIN!?"
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A lot of people apparently miss that "utopia" was coined for satirical uses. It means "nowhere".
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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.