Future Drama
The future ain't what it used to be
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Architect Walter Jonas’s Intrapolis, 1962
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Walter Cronkite tours the home office of 2001 (also the living room and kitchen). Filmed in 1967.
I like this prediction from the kitchen segment:
When I’ve finished eating, there will be no dishes to wash. The used plates will be melted down again, the leftovers destroyed in the process and the melted plastic will be ready to be molded into clean plates when I need them next.
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2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968
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General Motors’ “Futurama” at the World’s Fair, 1964
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Ivan Sutherland of MIT demoing Sketchpad, 1963
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Doug Engelbart of Stanford and “the mother of all demos” introducing the mouse, video conferencing, teleconferencing, hypertext, word processing, and about 6 different other things, 1968
(To be fair, this video doesn’t quite fit the theme — Engelbart was demoing ‘real working stuff’ whereas most of these videos are purely conceptual)
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Buckminster Fuller, 1968
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British Telecom, 1969
