Trans Global highway/railway? Talk about grand plans. This guy has thought it all through.[:D] He must have lots of time to spare.
Wow,
Some of this nonsense sound very familar…
“On the other hand, consider that in 1939, the thought of a completely open Europe, without boarders, would also have seemed totally impossible.”
I’m not quite sure what an open Europe has to do with having boarders in one’s house… [;)]
Maybe in Europe now everybody has their own place?
its pretty obvious hes a kook, he doesn’t even believe in man made global warming. sheesh the nerve of some peoples children.
LOL
When I was a teenager, some expert knuckleheads ordered another round of shots and predicted that all trans oceanic freight would be carried in submarines. We’re still waiting for the graf zepplin to dock on the mooring post at the Empire State Building. Anyone old enough can remember Atomic Powered Trains. Imagine that mushroom cloud in the distance…must be a hard coupling. Great stuff. Where’s my flying car!? Someone should write a book about the lost worlds of futurists. Here’s another contemporary one-Personal Rapid Transit-do a search on Google and you will enter the world of Captain Zoom…
Don’t forget a heliocopter in every garage after WWII and then the one man flying platform of the 50’s and 60’s
Well, what’s the use in just being a nut, when you can be a passionate nut with a plan?[:P]
Another candidate is booking a reservation at the alluring moon hotel…I hope they have cable. It’s comforting to know that some half baked concepts actually make it into the real world. The next time I go deep woods camping, I will be sure to save some room in my backpack by using this ingenious space saving product…
I’m still waiting for my rocketbelt…
My all time favorite non starter prediction; remember this one?
“…In the 1950’s, economists, sociologists and futurists predicted shorter and shorter work weeks for the U.S. labor force. They were wrong. Surveys of workers by Louis Harris and Associates shows that average work weeks have lengthened steadily since the 1950’s…”
Actually, from this quote, it seems that he must believe that the polar caps are melting: “Weather or not these dire predictions are correct”!
More baloney sliced from the future. No wonder I always have this fear of being ripped off.
"General Motors’ “Futurama” exhibit showed a 
city 10,000 feet under the ocean reached by atomic submarines. It also featured a lunar colony with all-terrain vehicles for exploration and pumps sending ocean water to deserts. Cars drove themselves along automated highways, as drivers let computers set their speed and course.
At General Electric’s “Progressland,” visitors witnessed the “creation of a miniature sun” where nuclear reactors would generate unlimited amounts of energy to power all future inventions.
In 1966, Arthur C. Clarke wrote in Vogue magazine that houses would fly by 2001. He thought entire communities would head south for the winter or move to new locations for a change of scenery.
Many scholars of the past believed that the advances in technology would make life easier, and that by 2000, most adults would work only a few hours every week. Most daily tasks would be automated and computers or robots would be intelligent enough to complete them.
Although robots do help now with 
many things like making cars, they are not as popular as many science fiction books and movies once led people to believe. They thought robots would be helping students with homework, doing housework and thinking independently enough to write books or music. (Where’s a good homework robot when you need one?)
Bad Predictions
Here are a few other bad predictions from Laura Lee’s book:
- “Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further developments,” Roma
It is very easy to dismiss failed visions of the future…
It is much harder to formulate them. A hundered years ago who could have forecast that we would have the very medium that we are holding this discussion on. Man’s adaptation to technology as it gets developed is a never ending saga. Time and technology march onward and woe be to the individual, in today’s society, that can’t adapt. Viewing how technology has changed the world in my lifetime leads me to hope for an amazing future for my children’s lifetimes and for thier childrens.
Well, if not believing in man-made global warming makes one a kook, I guess I’m one too [:)]
Something interesting is currently happening. While more politicians are jumping on the “man made global warming” band wagon, many scientists are jumping off.
Didn’t we already have a discussion on that Bering Straight tunnel idea?
That idea he has for solving the incompatible gauge conundrum between Russian and NA rail gauges evidently wasn’t well thought out. Putting rail cars on little rail dollies? Might as well just take the box from one set of rail wheels and top-lift it over to the other set of rail wheels…
I wait with baited breath for that upcoming “shock the world” GW report from the IPCC. Apparently climate scientists have finally discovered a “smoking gun” way to subvert the basic laws of physics, and will prove once and for all (for the umpteenth time) that man made global warming is real and will kill us all![D)]
What, you haven’t been issued one yet?
Nothing that Lyndon LaRouche wasn’t proposing 10 years ago