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The 60s future: flying stuff, cities on the moon, shopping, hell yeah
Maybe this is the future we would have had if we didn't blow all our money going to war all those times 
Based on photos of the 1964 World's Fair, which looked pretty awesome to me. As usually, the dudes were my idea.
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considerations. My favorite futurism is the stuff that
came before the 40s when there was more whimsy
and less science
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Like the pulps, the Flash Gordon serials, "Things to come" etc.
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That's the ticket! I read a lot of Edgar Rice Burroughs and the like
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I've read quite a lot of him myself.
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Two I read were "At the Earth's core" and "Pellucidar". I read a couple of the Tarzan books too. I've got a whole bunch of Burroughs on my shelves, including a lot of the the Mars and Venus books which I'll get round to one day.
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Yes, I really liked the books I read and need to get round to more of them.
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And where were you in 1964? You probably weren't even born yet. I was a freshman in high school learning new things.
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But in 1995 I saw Goldfinger and got myself a 60s obsession
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What ever became of the Worlds Fair? I went to the one in New York in 64 . You are right about the war spending, how different the world could be now. The private sector will never replace government funding of research and development, we are at a standstill in so many areas. Fund death and destruction , always, fund research and development to benefit mankind, not so much.
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That's what I'd like to know. I never got a chance to go to one
Yeah, we only seem to get better at hurting each other. My friend read a study
that brokedown the various space exploration things that could have been
funded with the money from the Iraq war alone, and it was pretty staggering!
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Reminds me of those old 90s point and click adventure games
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I never experienced those, actually
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Man, this is a great one. The whole composition is solid... and I love that background. Also, their baby looks like random groceries, haha.
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If I find one I'll drive it to you, but you gotta drop me off back at my house
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Yes, we are capable of this, but we as a species have got a lot to learn.
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We've just got to remember those lessons that we keep forgetting.
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Yes, what matters the most is often remembered the least.
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Feels almost cyberpunk too... like 60s cyberpunk...
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Eeeps how'd I wind up doing that?
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Lol... sorry... I think the color is what did it for me.
What's wrong with Gibson? (Although I agree that he doesn't hold a candle to Burroughs.)
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I just can't read "hard" sci-fi, I'm more of a science-fantasy guy. Retro-future is a lot of fun too
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I agree wholeheartedly! If humanity spent its time on spiritual evolution and technological advances ONLY and NOT killing each other, we'd be a thriving species possibly spanning multiple worlds.
However, that's just me....that's just me!
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Well, you can have that reality when you read my stories now can't ya? Heeheehee!
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That's true! That's the reason I read Edgar Rice Burroughs: wonderful escapism!
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Yes! Reason why I write like I do...to escape this reality. I'm rereading A Different Child now for fun.
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