[sotd] September 8, 2004 [Transportation Futuristics]
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- Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 09:51:49 -0300
Site of the Day for Wednesday, September 8, 2004
Transportation Futuristics
Today's site, under the auspices of the library of the Institute of
Transportation Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, presents
a fascinating and colorful exhibit of past conjectures and designs of the
future shape transportation. Gentle Subscribers who may recall those
optimistic visions of personal air vehicles hovering over city streets as
almost standard fare of mid-century projections of the future, will
discover an exhibit which explores what happened to those brave
conceptions.
"What is 'transportation futuristics'? Many of us are familiar with covers
from Popular Science that depict commuters buzzing around in tiny aircraft
and landing on rooftops, or fanciful drawings of vehicles that run on
roads, float on water and also take to the air. The basic problem many of
us face each day -- how to get from Point A to Point B in the least amount
of time with the least amount of trouble -- has inspired many to dream of
marvelous ways to solve that problem. ... In spite of failing at what they
set out to achieve, many futuristics, especially those from transportation
practitioners, have influenced the design of equipment, facilities or
operations. This exhibit examines why these intriguing ideas failed and
what lessons we can learn from those failures." - from the website
The site features a spectrum of transportation types, from automotive to
commercial aviation, from supersonic transport to personal rapid transit.
Each category begins with an overview before proceeding to an extensive
gallery of images of proposed designs to launch the concept into the
mainstream of transportation usage. Many of the images in the various
galleries are accompanied by additional informative commentary.
Whizz over to the site for a fascinating perspective of what had been
visualized as the future of transportation at:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/news_events/exhibits/futuristics/index.html
A.M. Holm
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