Is this progress?

Thanks to Random Good Stuff for posting this spellbinding Disney vision of the future of transport – from the yesteryear of 1958.

The one big vision of luxury back then, it seems, was the dream of having machines do everything on our behalves.  From conveyor belt window shopping systems to cars that drive you straight to your desk – it seems tragic that the utopian dream was that of isolation and increased laziness.  Thankfully, 1958’s vision is far from coming to fruition – with the closest thing we have to its predictions being our new 186mph Eurostar, some driverless airport car-pod-things and subservient library chairs. 

Not so thankfully, we still don’t have sun powered electro suspension cars and certain arrogant ****s still drive 4x4s around the city.  (Rant over!).

Posted by: Simeon at matter transfer time on Thursday, 20th December 2007