Thursday, March 8, 2012

A Giant Atomic-Powered Cross-Country Rolling Hotel

1 of 10 predictions 1950s futurism got right and wrong about the year 2000

Prediction 8: We'll all be living a life of leisure With the great power that solar energy would bring (as well as what must have been seen as the beginning of endless technological discovery and triumph), "the world at last realized its age-old dream of lifting most of its labor from the backs of man," the article states. In fact, it pins this not to the year 2000, but the year 1985. Yeah, that didn't pan out. Pictured above is perhaps the grossest and most awesome visualization of this: a giant atomic-powered cross-country rolling hotel.

The other predictions here.

(Source: dvice.com)

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