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Transportation Retro-Futuristics

Posted by michael on from the meet-george-jetson dept.

jpatokal writes "Flashback to the future with UC Berkeley's Transportation Futuristics! An excellent exhibition of amazing diagrams on how transportation was expected to evolve, featuring flying saucer buses, airplane escape pods and, yes, monorails. But where are the Segways and SUVs?"

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  1. Re:Trans-planetary subway misses the boat. by juggledean · · Score: 2, Informative

    Even "sideways" you would be going closer to the center of the earth, sliding downhill until you are halfway there, then using the kinetic energy to coast uphill the rest of the way.

  2. Vew by Animats · · Score: 2, Informative

    View Design for Dreaming on line, from the Internet Archive.