and live in underwater cities made of lollipops and children's dreams. And we will tour the ocean depths with Undersea Tourist Boats! O what a glorious future we will have when the year 2000 comes!
PZ turned me on to the Paleo-Future blog, a wonderful site where the future of yesteryear is relived. The above image is the only one to come true from a series of postcards produced by Hildebrands (a leading German chocolate company of the time). Paleo-Future also has a some more posts on future human inhabitation of the world's oceans.
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The blog Paleo Future has an amazing series of postcards showing past visions of 2000. Go here to see them all. I've given one sample below. (Thanks to TMN for the link.)
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I have a friend who thinks sea cities are a silly idea. Whenever I mention it in a conversation he says "haven't I uprooted this idea from your mind yet?" :-/
Those German pictures were amusing but the article linked below actually got quite a few predictions quite close (although it missed out completely on the airplane, of course)
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I can see why underwater cities might not be a smashing idea, but certainly more underwater installations are in order. There's a lot of technological barriers, but I think its definitely going to be one of our more important resources if not during the later half of this century, then certainly sometime in the next.