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Katie Mack@astrokatie.com |
We got tricked by science fiction into thinking a futuristic city is all about flying cars and crystal towers and hologram billboards but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes.
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Jeff
@thirdwhaletrip.bsky.social
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I don't see that vision materialising KM ... I'm more of the Blade Runner scenarios. 😳🤣
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Emerson
@novaisel.bsky.social
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It's your average Dutch town — and I'm 100% onboard!
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Silly B Man
@lawnerd.bsky.social
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the caves of steel lol
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Patsy Stone Detemple
@detemple.bsky.social
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all of this *gif
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Kithsander
@kithsander.bsky.social
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We got robbed by capitalists who told us these nice things aren't really possible and that we need to work harder so they can buy bigger yachts and take tourist trips to the lower atmosphere on the money that should be going to making working class lives better.
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Dan de Kadt
@dandekadt.bsky.social
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Tbf those were dystopian visions.
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Katie Tightpussy
@juicysteak117.gay
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SHADE TREES is really the kicker that people do not talk about enough. shade is SO important and politicized
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Daniel Simons
@profsimons.bsky.social
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And taco trucks on every corner!
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Alilsomnsomn
@alilsomnsomn.bsky.social
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Oh and don't forget sooooo many sidewalks like all the side walks
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Barrington Kenilworth IV
@barringtonk.bsky.social
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I love this.
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pecos jane
@pecosjane.bsky.social
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Pretty sure you’re going to get flying cars provided by predatory capitalists before you get any of that livable egalitarian earth-respecting dream city stuff.
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@bunshonokai.bsky.social
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I feel if you took the aesthetic of 1905 prior to the automobile, where infrastructure was built for the gens to come / society as a whole rather than indiv. Then updated it with modern tech and green energy sustainability. You'd be in a solid great future. Planting trees for shade you'll never see
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Jack Rudd 🇹🇹 🏳️⚧️
@imjackrudd.bsky.social
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I'm currently posting from Singapore, and it has quite a lot of that.
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Laika L Gagarin
@laikalgagarin.bsky.social
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even the dystopian science fiction is somehow cooler than our current dystopian. Cyberpunk told us we'd have robot parts and retro cars, with neon lights, but nah all we got was NFTs, AI, and Corporate sterilization of everything.
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Christine Hanolsy
@hanolsy.bsky.social
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I dunno… at this point, that sounds a little more like fantasy to me. *lolsob*
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@theotherx.bsky.social
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The future is dark
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wildmonkeysects™
@wildmonkeysects.bsky.social
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Ecotopia!
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Victoria De Capua
@victoriadecapua.bsky.social
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I like bluetooth things also.
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Juli Gittinger aka Dr G
@jlgittinger.bsky.social
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And solar panels on every rooftop!
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Chris
@cjnmcg.bsky.social
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I'm still thinking bladerunner nails it.
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@bagofbleeps.bsky.social
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Chicago does well. At leat the 19th century robber barons believed in parks.
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John Nez
@johnnez.bsky.social
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I like all the bicycle lane planning and data on Twitter about bike lanes. Now with electric bikes, there's no reason to not take the bike.
I even got some great book ideas from there...
#kidlitart
x.com/Streetfilms/...
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Bas Wisselink
@baswisselink.bsky.social
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I never knew that in Amsterdam, we essentially live in the future :)
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Jerry Timber
@jerrytimber.bsky.social
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Fruit trees and public orchards or am I insane? I’m insane.
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Hannibal Hamlin Wildlife Preservation Trust
@rustylemon.bsky.social
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It's wild how quickly Barcelona became my yardstick for future urbanism after spending some time there.
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Ur Multimedia
@urmultimedia.bsky.social
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By making the future sound like flying cars and hologram billboards, the people are more likely to accept it's unachievable. When it's nice apartments and good transport with shady green pedestrian zones, we realise it's completely achievable start to ask uncomfortable questions of our officials.
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Andrew S.
@shoutingboy.bsky.social
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what about the robot dogs tho
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Desiccated Cephalopod
@codasquid.bsky.social
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And free, on demand food & drink
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Reverend H. Entity
@reverendentity.bsky.social
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Equally valid, since we'll never have any of those things either.
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Luca Sundeen
@lucasundeen.bsky.social
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What you’re describing is called solarpunk. And it’s not popular for some reason. Even tho I love it
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@jay-lee.bsky.social
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Wishful thinking? You never know what the future will really look like.
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John James!
@bakerjohnj.bsky.social
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@dragonlordfreya.bsky.social
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I get really annoyed anytime the future in media is just fancy cars. Have some imagination
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C. "Count Deathtoll" Reynolds
@countdeathtoll.bsky.social
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I still want power armor.
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Del Sinistra
@delsinistra.bsky.social
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Whaaat? Good mass transit? Bicycle lanes? Get outta town! That'll never happen without alien technology!
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Susan
@skeletonsharp.bsky.social
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Becky Chambers out here doing all the work to correct this.
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bunny
@bunny21075.bsky.social
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ok but can we keep the crystal towers?
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Profit Greenly
@profitgreenly.bsky.social
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So basically Barcelona is a vision of the future.
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Mike Wiser
@drmikewiser.bsky.social
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Could we make at least some of the apartment blocks out of crystal, though? It's a nice look, and it's probably too expensive to make the mass transit out of crystal.
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The Rt Hon Lady Kidman
@nicolekidmansnose.bsky.social
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Instead of hoverboards we have electric scooters.
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Moderately Grouchy
@moderately-grouchy.bsky.social
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That's planning fiction. Science fiction is about things we wish we could have that are impossible. Oh wait. 😬
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Infinite Perspective
@infiniteview.bsky.social
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TNG new what was up. Depictions of contemporary earth always looked like it was a big park that happened to have some star fleet headquarters and other buildings in it.
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Symbo1ics
@symbo1ics.bsky.social
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the future looks like Switzerland
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Yopp
@yopp.bsky.social
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I mean that's what it should look like. What do you do about the lobbyists who make sure that's not a thing?
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Paul Guinnessy
@paulguinnessy.bsky.social
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And good healthcare that doesn’t bankrupt you if you get sick!
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Richard Heppner (see also id. @ 🐘, 🧵, ❎)
@rlheppner.bsky.social
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Pavel
@spavel.bsky.social
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The Strugatsky brothers' Noon Universe setting includes some descriptions of ordinary cities, and it's a very different vision from Western SF for sure
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Alex Howard
@digiphile.bsky.social
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Sounds a lot like many European cities, when you put it like that
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Adam Thornton
@athornton.bsky.social
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No, _that_ one is Urban Fantasy.
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Dusty Poncho
@dustyponcho.bsky.social
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commieblocks but pretty is the city of the future and I am not joking
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Codex OS
@codexeditor.bsky.social
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Even better, a return to village-style centres sustained by local industry and remote work...
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Ehusman
@ehusman.bsky.social
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A futuristic city is basically a well-preserved medieval walled city like Rothenburg
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Alex White
@apawhite.bsky.social
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The arrival of the taco truck is greeted with cheers of joy rather than ethnic slurs, and 'trucks' bigger than Humvees and smaller storage than a hatchback are driven out of town with jeers of derision.
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CZieten
@czieten.bsky.social
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Are you dreaming?
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Chris
@chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social
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Star Trek showed that achieving that utopia required as much work on the ground as it did in space. San Fransisco, Paris, and New Orleans all had people walking to shops and restaurants on their way to work, with clean air and public services. The big improvements were in society before technology.
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Leander Campbell
@leandercampbell.bsky.social
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I, for one, long for the good old days when trained animals did our biddings 😁
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maniagnosis
@maniagnosis.bsky.social
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That sounds like a hippie-dippie Star Trek thing.
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Carter
@carter.fyi
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Idk if SF tricked us as much as we tricked ourselves. As writers & readers, we grew so enamored with the mythic *means* that we've all but lost sight of their supposed ends. Flying cars + holograms are exciting, even magical; 5-over-1s & free flu shots... not so much. Can you blame us?
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@sambondo.bsky.social
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I could not agree more.
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LNR
@lnr.bsky.social
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I want to live in your idea of the future!
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Hyperlexic
@hyperlexic.bsky.social
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and nearly free solar power.
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Marjorie
@hydroqueen211.bsky.social
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And neighborhood gardens......please!
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Jimmy (Ø) Jim (Ø) James
@jimmyjimjames.bsky.social
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Jane Jacobs- futurist
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Roshambo
@pdog11234.bsky.social
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In retrospect, seeing flying cars instead of clean, affordable, and reliable mass transport was car propaganda.
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Marc McKenzie
@marcmck.bsky.social
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Completely agree with this--but dammit, can I still have my flying nuclear-powered DeLorean? 🤣
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LeChuckPPAT
@lechuck.bsky.social
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star trek does picture earth that way I believe
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Henning Tveit
@henningtveit.bsky.social
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That’s not sci-fi. That’s a Lonely Planet guide to quite a few places in Europe.
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cidonnelly1
@cidonnelly.bsky.social
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You forgot silver lamé mini-dresses and jumpsuits.
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Philip
@tebbs.bsky.social
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No AI taxis with Robert Picardo heads?!
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PCNiles née Furyu
@pcniles.bsky.social
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Right? That is so true!
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Mr. Bad 🍍🆖
@mrbad.bsky.social
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We didn't get tricked per se, we were being warned. The megacities with flying cars werent supposed to be desirable outcomes, but tech bros took the concepts as inspiration instead of models of caution
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WirecardTyp
@wirecardtyp.bsky.social
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How suprising the by coca using 80's film makers envisioned future doesn't turn out to be real but the dellusions of the people that got kind of brainwashed of it are really real.
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Halcek
@halcek.bsky.social
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That’s not futurism tho, that’s socialism. As someone living in a former communist country in Eastern Europe, this is what we already had here decades ago and it’s only now being slowly dedeveloped away.
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✿🦢🩰🎃꧁🫒༺❧☽🪐🔆☾❧༻🫒꧂🎃🩰🐈⬛❀
@odiledemonicat.bsky.social
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Oh, sure, flying cars SOUND like a cool idea. Until the first drunk driving accidents happen. And all car parks have to have landing strips. And everyone who wants to drive has to also take basic flight training (which btw is not "basically just driving only up").
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🐑💬🐝🔒❤️
@bobbylox.bsky.social
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Twilight Zoning Board
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Bezel Folf
@bezelfolf.bsky.social
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Can we have all that but with flying cars as well ?
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Mr. The Positivity
@d-v-z-v.bsky.social
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visions of the future always emerge from some specific present and bear its imprint
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andyroz Go Green
@andyroz.bsky.social
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But teleporting will be real, right?
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Mike Eliason
@holz-bau.bsky.social
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yes!
in fact, the thesis of my forthcoming book for island press 👍
bsky.app/profile/holz...
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Dusty
@dustythenurse.bsky.social
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Let’s hope so!
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💤arleck from Space
@zarleckazpa.bsky.social
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We could us so many more shade trees rn.
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May Fürhst, Queen of the Hectocotylus
@inkloaded.bsky.social
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Teton Kali
@tetonkali.bsky.social
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Oh Katie, I truly expect hologram billboards soon, and I also expect directed ads based on your location, very soon.
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Laura J Mixon
@laurajmg.bsky.social
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I think about this a lot.
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Verity Vagary
@mgcomics.bsky.social
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Photos of the future that don't include trees always have me wondering how they expect people to breathe the air
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B. Kirisaki
@kirisaki.bsky.social
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We forget that all of those science fiction shows are about a tech dystopia and seek to illustrate a future where humans are degraded to replaceable components in the machinery of capitalism
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Aura
@auraspect.bsky.social
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Only for the time being. Foundations first as they say.
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Nihl L'Amas
@nih-llamas.bsky.social
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Obviously you have never known the miracle of tiny dots of ice cream.
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JP Spalding - ✍️ #amwriting
@jpspalding.bsky.social
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I for one am ready for the ceres tight hallways and nauseating tight coriolis to achieve 1/3rd gravity and limited filtration systems always on the fritz~
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@grendelkinarts.bsky.social
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That does sound nice.
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Cycle Fun Montreal
@cyclefunmontreal.bsky.social
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Dome-enclosed cities still on the table tho.
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@storypup.bsky.social
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Especially the bike lanes.
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Ryan Humphrey
@ryanhumphrey.bsky.social
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Maybe “good future” outcomes are less interesting story telling engines, but we should still strive for them
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Corner.
@dangerouscorner.bsky.social
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_Usborne Book Of The Future_, nice option. Not the one on the facing page, which we ended up in.
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Happyroach
@ericthetolle.bsky.social
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I've been looking for a while at art of futuristic cities and my thoughts almost always end up as "Where are the parks? Where are the trees and greenways?"
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Viola Smart
@smartvpants.bsky.social
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Glowing silver bullet trains still allowed in both fantasies.
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Goddamn Mandi Moss
@mandimoss.bsky.social
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I think that's actually fantasy fiction.
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Rage Against The Miami Sound Machine
@randymiller.bsky.social
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I think Asimov did a good job in Caves of Steel and Naked Sun of showing how a futuristic metropolis or Eden, respectively, were actually prisons. The second obviously taking inspiration from The Machine Stops.
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Brad Snowder 🔭
@bradsnowder.bsky.social
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Instead of Blade Runner, roller blades and runners.
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birdie
@idiocracy.bsky.social
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where?
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WickedFemme (She/They)
@alucrasher27.bsky.social
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Would be a much more welcome sight than all these giant fields of asphalt containing metal death machines going at absurdly high speeds, or car dependent neighborhoods of completely identical single family homes with nothing to do in them.
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Nate Breznau
@breznaunate.bsky.social
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Science fiction tries to create things that are plausible. What you mention is regular fiction.
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Ken Burnside
@kenburnside.bsky.social
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And licensure for internal combustion private vehicles for personal use at $1/gram.
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Clem Fandango
@uglybarbarian.bsky.social
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The residents of Copenhagen will be thrilled to hear they are from some distant future
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Timlagor
@timlagor.bsky.social
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Asimov had great mass transit
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Menger Spongebob (🌕 SOFT-LANDED)
@menger-spongebob.bsky.social
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i want a flying bycicle
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Richard F Adams
@richardfadams.bsky.social
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Not Mega City One
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David Stonehill
@dstonehill.bsky.social
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I’m thinking we’re more likely to get the flying cars.
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Crystalsidian
@crystalsidian.bsky.social
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This but add the flying cars too please 😂
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Matty Cat 🐈⬛
@catcreature.bsky.social
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Yep. Dystopian futuristic sci-fi worlds are largely meant to be cautionary tales, not business goals for venture capital.
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Drew Rosielle
@drosielle.bsky.social
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Ok but the part about the future city being full of noodles is/must be/will be correct or else all of this is for nothing
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Willow By The River
@geometer.bsky.social
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This.
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@wildmanjohn.bsky.social
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Don’t forget the Mind Control.
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Glen
@vaguebiscuit.bsky.social
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Add in more public toilets and some nice mood lighting at night
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@gobe.bsky.social
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And, in return, that trick just brainstormed most of Silicon Valley into thinking “SF showed me the future I can make!!” as opposed to them really understanding some of SF’s true dystopian play. A plague on all their SV bubbles, I say! 🤷♀️
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Kobayashi Saru
@kobayashisaru.bsky.social
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And of course a certain demographic is now certain that being able to walk to most of your amenities is some sort of satanic plot to gulag Americans
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Bart Leib
@metafrantic.bsky.social
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See, NOW the future sounds awesome. Flying cars give me anxiety, good mass transit ftw.
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@mjk4mj.bsky.social
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"Cablebús: El nuevo transporte aéreo de la CDMX" youtu.be/xLaeoXjZlA8?...
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@roudy1.bsky.social
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have you seen a city with any of it yet??
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FrankJuston 🇮🇱🇺🇦
@frankjuston.bsky.social
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Ok, we in Germany got tricked twice 😥
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Serenity Now!
@cpo10za.bsky.social
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So…we just need to replicate places like Amsterdam & Barcelona, scaled to location. Seems much more doable than The Jetsons’ city.
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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I'd just like to have a talk with the urban planning committee for Night City, okay
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Hipster Sasquatch
@hipstersasquatch.bsky.social
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And plenty of benches and places to sit or even lie down on a nice day, or just on your lunch break. No hostile architecture. Parks with trees, bathrooms, working water fountains, playgrounds, and community gardens in safely walkable distances of each neighborhood. Reductions in sprawl.
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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com
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All the transit and sidewalks are accessible; there are cute little grocery stores and bookshops and cafes within a short walk of every apartment tower; healthcare is universal and social services are easy to access.
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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com
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[this post originally appeared on the site formerly known as Twitter; citation: x.com/AstroKatie/s...
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Bluebabbler
@bluebabbler.bsky.social
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And solar panels.
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Mad Dik 😡
@chaensaw.com
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I would add easy access to bathrooms and potable water.
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Rhys
@rhysthomasssss.bsky.social
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Sadly, what we've been shown as the future by sci-fi is more likely to happen than your much nicer version of the future.
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@punsandguns.bsky.social
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This kind of science fiction would be completely unwatchable. I like my science fiction to be somewhat believable.
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Jesse Yules | Director
@jesseyules.bsky.social
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You’re describing the pre-War world. :)
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Sean of the 418 I'm a teapot
@sheepbop.bsky.social
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My bit of London is doing OK for now then. More or less.
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Tío Coño
@tiocono.bsky.social
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I'd settle for free pizza delivery again at this point.
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La Suze
@suze7.bsky.social
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Cannot agree more to this, thank you Katie !
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Andy Barnett
@hof1991.bsky.social
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We got tricked by religion into thinking the city of god is all about power, rules and exclusion but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes. And libraries with a coffee shop.
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send bibi and biden to the hague
@bonerkuwanger.bsky.social
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all I'm saying is we could at least have a few of those crystal towers, as a treat
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Robert Lepage, PhD., P.Eng.
@climesgroup.ca
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And tapas bars!
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康子 🇵🇸 @ 702 KHive St
@yasuko.bsky.social
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I think that sounds like a great city.
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Freek van Ostrand
@sullenfish.com
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This reminds me of a rant one of my CSci professors went on (decades ago, now!) about how desktop PCs were an abomination, the goal was supposed to be for computing devices to be unobtrusive, like the one in your refrigerator.
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Rikibeth
@rikibeth.bsky.social
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sometimes it’s BOTH but this was not something I realized until I went to a Frank Lloyd Wright exhibit at the Guggenheim and the “Usonian city” watercolor smacked me in the face like HERE IS THE DC AREA AS DESCRIBED IN STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND Heinlein was a Wright fanboy, you see
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Mark Sutter: Author of Vulcan’s Blade
@marksutterauthor.bsky.social
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I have an idea for a book that starts in such a futuristic city!
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Jack Gerdeman
@gerdeman.bsky.social
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Green roofs!
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Carl Dershem
@carldershem.bsky.social
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Not to mention good infrastucture.
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@hughmurnaghan.bsky.social
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Sounds terrifyingly Dutch to me...
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Luigi de Guzman
@ouij.bsky.social
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The original flying car city was Fritz Lang’s Metropolis which was…a dystopia
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bettybarcode
@bettybarcode.bsky.social
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Plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery, I guess.
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Idiot/Savant
@norightturnnz.bsky.social
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Bottom picture all the way
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