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Futurism of the Past
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Wife-fryer with cone-of-silence?
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It would take Japanese or Chinese levels of density to justify all that effort to put them up in the air and it seems that is the current status quo for them.Colonel Sun wrote: ↑Fri Feb 14, 2020 4:15 amWell, it's in active use.
The Osaka Monorail connects with most of the major train lines and one of the subway lines.
There is a proposal to add four more stations.
My only complaint is that the train connections are at minor stations, only serviced by the local milk-run trains, not the express trains.
In Tokyo, there is the Tokyo Monorail, built for the Tokyo 1964 Olympics, which runs from Haneda International Airport to downtown connecting with the Yamanote [Green] line which does a loop around Tokyo. Apparently, there is a proposal to extend the monorail to central Tokyo Station, the original plan.
As you may recall, monorails were a huge fad solution to public transport during part of the 20th century. However, they never, er, took off.
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“Hey Bill, turn left. The boss has a special request for the depot. We are to ask the receptionist to send nudes.”
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"Can my machine talk to your machine?"
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A front seat view of the Shonan Monorail in Kanagawa Prefecture near Tokyo.noddy wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2020 2:38 amIt would take Japanese or Chinese levels of density to justify all that effort to put them up in the air and it seems that is the current status quo for them.Colonel Sun wrote: ↑Fri Feb 14, 2020 4:15 amWell, it's in active use.
The Osaka Monorail connects with most of the major train lines and one of the subway lines.
There is a proposal to add four more stations.
My only complaint is that the train connections are at minor stations, only serviced by the local milk-run trains, not the express trains.
In Tokyo, there is the Tokyo Monorail, built for the Tokyo 1964 Olympics, which runs from Haneda International Airport to downtown connecting with the Yamanote [Green] line which does a loop around Tokyo. Apparently, there is a proposal to extend the monorail to central Tokyo Station, the original plan.
As you may recall, monorails were a huge fad solution to public transport during part of the 20th century. However, they never, er, took off.
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May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
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Galaxy Science Fiction [1958] | Innocent At Large
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Apparently its not a very good book to read but Jules Verne nailed 1960 from 1860 quite well.
Apparently its not a very good book to read but Jules Verne nailed 1960 from 1860 quite well.
The book's description of the technology of 1960 was in some ways remarkably close to actual 1960s technology. The book described in detail advances such as cars powered by internal combustion engines ("gas-cabs") together with the necessary supporting infrastructure such as gas stations and paved asphalt roads, elevated and underground passenger train systems and high-speed trains powered by magnetism and compressed air, skyscrapers, electric lights that illuminate entire cities at night, fax machines ("picture-telegraphs"), elevators, primitive computers which can send messages to each other as part of a network somewhat resembling the Internet (described as sophisticated electrically powered mechanical calculators which can send information to each other across vast distances), the utilization of wind power, automated security systems, the electric chair, and remotely-controlled weapons systems, as well as weapons destructive enough to make war unthinkable.
The book also predicts the growth of suburbs and mass-produced higher education (the opening scene has Dufrénoy attending a mass graduation of 250,000 students), department stores, and massive hotels. A version of feminism has also arisen in society, with women moving into the workplace and a rise in illegitimate births. It also makes accurate predictions of 20th-century music, predicting the rise of electronic music, and describes a musical instrument similar to a synthesizer, and the replacement of classical music performances with a recorded music industry. It predicts that the entertainment industry would be dominated by lewd stage plays, often involving nudity and sexually explicit scenes.
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Interesting. Some predictions were close to the mark, some were wildly wrong.
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1953 AP release
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I suspect editing. Incomplete with none of the lame jokes these newsreels usually had.
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I also suspect the narrator. Sounds modern.Nonc Hilaire wrote: ↑Sat Oct 10, 2020 7:58 pmI suspect editing. Incomplete with none of the lame jokes these newsreels usually had.
For comparison,
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The old newsreel narrators talked in a fast upbeat hyper-excited manner.
[A style that persists in Japan to this day.]
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Suspect that this is retro modern also.
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The Overlooked Wonders of Soviet-Era Industrial Design
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/s ... PGifyOTQS0
Some of the products featured in the book have since become iconic, such as the Nevalyaskha roly-poly dolls that righted themselves to an upright position. Others remained as prototypes, such as the Belka A50 compact car, which had a stub-nosed front and a bubble-shaped roof. And some have enjoyed a second life in post-USSR Russia: cosplayers have been known to use the top half of a Saturnas vacuum cleaner as medieval helmets. Atlas Obscura has a selection of images from the book.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/s ... PGifyOTQS0
She irons her jeans, she's evil.........
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