Imaginary Places
These are catchall pages. I am not sure what visions will land here. Just that they do not fit easily into the previous categories. If one had to categorize them, they would be subjects that caught my fancy.
These are scenarios - even fantasies, not predictions. They arise whole cloth from the imagination or the failed plans of past visionaries. They are not based on current trends. The likelihood that they would become reality is slim, but the possibility is interesting. Given the depressing news that permeates our lives, such imaginary places can be comforting. They may even stimulate some enterprising souls to work towards some better visions that will transform this solar community in which we float through the cosmos.
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Above is a moonbase as seen in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. The failure of this scenario to come to fruition disappointed an entire generation raised on the visions of John Kennedy and the 1960s. The vision failed with the space program hiatus beginning in the later Nixon Administration. |
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Frank Lloyd Wright was a brilliant architect - perhaps the greatest America ever produced. However, among the masterpieces were some concepts that, although demonstrating his fertile imagination, never saw the light of day. Among them were the Broadacre City that would have taken sprawl, and the destruction of our farm and natural areas, to a new level. Another was the Mile High Building shown on the right - where most of its floor area would have been consumed by elevators. |
On the internet early in the 21st century a website was started where participants across the planet could create visions of the far future. This site continually evolves as participants increase and technology grows more capable of representing future places and states of existence. Here is the timeline of Orion's Arm.