well under it anyway…
Tekhnika Molodezhi magazine, Feb 1959
Tag: Futureville
Social Distancing in 2022?
Article in December 1962 issue of Domenica Del Corriere.which is strangely relevant today.
“Will cities be like this? Here’s how the problem of traffic in cities could be lightened, if not completely solved: tiny single-seater cars that occupy a small area.”
It’s 2020!
A Midocean City
A Future City Anchored in Midocean
Fascinating Dream of the French Engineer Foenquinos to Float a New All-Steel Atlantis Midway Between Europe and America in the Gulf Stream — A Haven and Paradise to Be Eighth Wonder of the World.
The Marseilles engineer proposes to build his floating city on an immense steel ring, in the center of which will be an enclosed harbor that may be entered by passing under on of the four towers.
10 years from now…
The Daily Tribune, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, July 17, 1929
Wireless Private Phone, 1930
A view of what communications could look like in the future.
Hat Styles, 1924
Are they coming to this?
Floating Mid-Ocean City, 1931
A proposed $2,000,000 mid-ocean city to be established midway between Bordeaux, France and St. Johns, Newfoundland. The outer steel network would act as a breakwater, and the harbor inside would serve as a trans-Atlantic hydroplane station.
Metropolis Fashion
For the film METROPOLIS, whose theme and design forge new paths, I was confronted with challenges of a totally new kind. It wasn’t enough to design the fashion of tomorrow already slumbering in today’s mind or, for that matter, slumbering in the day after tomorrow, certain to take shape in the minds of great fashion designers the next day. I had to create fashions of the year 2000 – a time that we think of as existing at a fantastic distance, and which, for that reason,can only take shape in one’s fantasy – Aenne Willkomm
