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I love mid-century futurism. While they did get many things wrong, that's inevitable when you have big ideas and put them forward fearlessly. Whenever I read an
by api 11y ago
I love mid-century futurism. While they did get many things wrong, that's inevitable when you have big ideas and put them forward fearlessly. Whenever I read anything from that era in science, art, architecture, even philosophy, I am often struck by the boldness and fearlessness of it compared to the plodding baby-steps of today. Even today's most "radical" ideas like transhumanism, etc., are really just meek little echoes of ideas from that era.
The bold often seem foolish in retrospect when compared to the intellectually timid, since the latter get to avoid being wrong by simply not doing much of anything.
- Animats 11y agoVisit China. Maglev trains, new cities from the ground up, giant dams... It's happening.
- kevin_thibedeau 11y agoI don't see how they were going to get underground roadways to work two levels deep with the Florida water table and rainfall being what it is. Even if they could keep the water out the tunnels would be perpetually dank and unpleasant.
- Johnny555 11y agoProbably the same way they built the "underground" tunnels beneath all of the Magic Kingdom -- build ground level "tunnels" and build up the ground on top of them.