World of tomorrow

– painting from the book The World of Tomorrow (1980): 2. Peter Elson 1980 – (1983) 4. Cyber City by Tomoaki Okada

There are some very good ideas in this vision that we could consider using today.

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Let's marvel at the world of tomorrow depicted in 'The World of Tomorrow.'

Who’d be a futurologist eh? You try your hardest to predict what’s likely to happen in a generation or so and almost inevitably you’ll get a least 50% of it wrong. These magazine articles and books from the 1950s and 1970s are wildly inaccurate when predicting we’ll all be living under glass domes by the 1990s [&hellip

In 2013, a day in the life of a Los Angeles family of four is an amazing testament to technological progress and the idealistic society that can be achieved...or at least that's what the Los Angeles Times Magazine was hoping for 25 years ago. Back in April 1988, the magazine ran a special cover story called "L.A. 2013" and presented what a typical day would be like for a family living in the city.

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