September 04 2006
Are We There Yet?
posted by Steven Shaw at 8:16 amA great vision of the future. Well, someone’s future anyway. This 1960s imagining of airtravel in the 1970s comes across like one of those Hanso Foundation clips in Lost.
By the looks of things, we commute around in pneumatic tubes and everyone flies in ultra-snazzy first class, with mood controls and creepy looking seatbelts. Clothing still has a way to go – the tinfoil apparel is best avoided, you’ll just get an itchy bottom (if you look closely you’ll see the butt-scratcher).
The clip is way off the mark socially, but we’re getting there with the video phone and smart card/memory stick bits.
Via IFTF
September 4th, 2006 at 2:30 pm
“There’s no waiting in this supersonic age, and very little walking.”
well, one out of two ain’t bad.
September 5th, 2006 at 6:50 am
After all the itching i had with the tinfoil underpants, i had to return them, now if only i could write a review about them on Ferrit.
September 5th, 2006 at 1:13 pm
You say the clip is “way off the mark, socially” but then you have to respect an observation as pointed as “a friendly computer will know more about you than you do.” And I don’t think the writers were even imagining an era as paranoid as ours.