Where are the giant wheel-o-boats? The colossal airships, floating cities, and residential pyramids? At the very least, where are the colorful renderings of how these amazing feats of design and engineering may look in the future?
They’re in the past, that’s where. And what good is a bright, shining future when it hides in the past? All this modern emphasis on “practicality” and “engineering” and “paying for food” is stifling our spirit.
I mean, who are you to tell me that a hovering platinum palace can’t be built in the Andes? Where is it written that a kilometer-high needle tower can’t be topped with an airstrip? And why must they always laugh when I ask for a nuclear sandwich?
Well?
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Ooh — I used to have that print on the right! Every futuristic rendering from that era had a sporty red paint job.
I could see some of the more audacious buildings (e.g. airstrip atop a giant tower) being par for the course in Dubai.
Wheel-O-boats! I love it. Why do they all look like they’re wearing smiley faces?
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