Post by Salzmank on Jun 29, 2018 14:30:10 GMT
I wonder if anyone else remembers these books:
I took them out of the library all the time as a kid; I was fascinated by the first one in particular, which had such truly captivating entries as the Amphicar, a three-decker Soviet airplane, and (heh) driverless cars. (There was apparently a third one, The Future World of Energy, but my library must not have had it.) I actually checked my hometown library’s catalogue the other day and found the books weren’t there any longer, unfortunately… Oh well. They were great. Interesting article here about them:
I took them out of the library all the time as a kid; I was fascinated by the first one in particular, which had such truly captivating entries as the Amphicar, a three-decker Soviet airplane, and (heh) driverless cars. (There was apparently a third one, The Future World of Energy, but my library must not have had it.) I actually checked my hometown library’s catalogue the other day and found the books weren’t there any longer, unfortunately… Oh well. They were great. Interesting article here about them:
My interest in futurism can probably be credited to two things: Disney's EPCOT Center and children's science books of the 1980s and 90s. One of my earliest posts here at the Paleo-Future blog covered the EPCOT Center book, The Future World of Transportation. I vividly recall checking out the three books in this series from my elementary school library, my sticky fingers pawing through the technological promises Baby Boomers never saw materialize but insisted we Millennials would soon enjoy. Just over that horizon, just a little further! The year 2000 is going to change everything! We swear!
The number is just so big. And round! 2000! Look at all those zeros. 2000!
To the author's credit they figured out that to sound even remotely plausible and still make me wet my Underoos over the advanced technology featured in the book, one had to open with a year further out than 2000 A.D. …
The number is just so big. And round! 2000! Look at all those zeros. 2000!
To the author's credit they figured out that to sound even remotely plausible and still make me wet my Underoos over the advanced technology featured in the book, one had to open with a year further out than 2000 A.D. …
) But I did have to do a double-take when I was riding it today, because it really did feel like I was seeing in real life what I’d read about in The Future World of Transportation. (I did ride the D.C. Metro years ago when I was a kid, but I guess I didn’t think of the book at the time.)
