What life will be like in "the uranium age," according to an artist for Popular Mechanics, January 1941.pic.twitter.com/HXfUFPQKKP
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What's odd here is that the article that accompanies this gives no explanation for why they'd be living underground. The article is all about how awesome uranium will be as a fuel for automobiles and flying cars. So why live underground? It's not a "hiding from nukes" situation.
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(Maybe you have to live underground because your neighbors are flying around cars loaded with U-235. I mean, that would be a pretty sane response to that situation.)
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Living underground frees up the surface for a more natural environment.
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There's a lot of people who like the concept of arcologies.
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Would guess idea is energy so abundant no need to use ground-space just to be exposed to sunlight. So mundane activities move to controlled underground environment to free up space for recreation, natural environment, & flying cars. HG Wells's book "Things to come" had same idea.
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We're on our way there with vertical farming. Just need the return of nuclear power to free the surface and save the worldpic.twitter.com/vIlCjB5tWe
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Views of the future are of course molded by the present in which they were created. The air cars & buses looked th have been inspired by Loewy of streamlining fame. Of course no real aerodynamics there. The underground idea is probably “cool” for the time. Again no sci behind it.
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*to* have been inspired And the piping...are those air vents? Maybe that explains the underground idea: purified air? Ah, but those U-235 air cars. The rocket engine Olds U-235...
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Gotta maximize land for agriculture
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Made perfect sense after the diplomatic agreement with the molepeople
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Part of popular futurism is the complete divergence from common norms. Living underground addressed a multitude of imagined, and often trivial, above-ground ploblems.
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Probably a crossover with early conservationist and "Garden City" ideas about getting human activity as much out of the natural environment as possible.
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