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The 1979 Usborne Book of the Future is amazing. It shows a Hyperloop, electric cars, colonies through the solar system (and galaxy), lots of clean energy, AI, and so much else. https://archive.org/details/Usborne_Book_of_the_Future_1979_pointlessmuseum/page/n53 …pic.twitter.com/x2FCRNHK15
There's a surprisingly strong interest in renewable energy throughout. On the less prescient side, an amusing discussion of Yuri Geller's spoonbending etc. Overall, many remarkable visions for the future, for 1979.pic.twitter.com/Ab0l1bT6ul
The bits I loved most as a kid were the bits about hollowing out an asteroid and using it as a generation ship to visit other starspic.twitter.com/QnDIgG3Aie
Related: the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_of_World_Problems_and_Human_Potential … Imagine a video version!
BRILLIANT - where do you find this stuff?!
I cheated for this one - I read & loved it when I was a kid. And I saw that someone - probably @textfiles - had uploaded all the old Usborne books (many of which were favorites).
"Space Settlements: a Design Study" (1977) is also good, in a similar vein. Makes me kind of sad/nostalgic for an alternate future, though. https://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/75SummerStudy/Table_of_Contents1.html …
I'd be happy if San Francisco looked like this, let alone a toroidal space colony!pic.twitter.com/Wm2SehFNaa
Another recommendation: Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future by Joseph J. Cornhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/0801853990
I remember reading the French version!
Wow the memories. Wish I had kept my copy!
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