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[…] its best concepts out of the straight-jacket of the motor show and put them on the road in the Futurama shows, which toured the country from 1949 to ’61, displaing the cars alongside other […]

By: Christophe Bruchansky

Christophe Bruchansky — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:17:51 +0000

Like for any well thought visions, it would have worked better if everyone followed it. It is the problem with GM’s Futurama, it assumed a totally ordered society where efficiency is king. It nearly annihilates the human factor I would say (notice that no human is present in the video, only efficient roads and cities). It also contradicts itself sometimes, like when it says that a city as planned by GM would be with fresh air…

By: DGate

DGate — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 04:36:02 +0000

Where this vision has backfired in the UK its still working nicely in America, however its the very reason we are having the problems we have today with over consumption of resources and polution.
This pending problem was not forseen originally just as in todays world people cannot see the benefits of living a more sustainable lifestyle over the one we have become accustomed too.
Financial greed is preventing the implementation of sustainable infrastructures meant to save the human species from extinction. This is the same formulae that built the GM empire that has recently collapsed and been felt world wide. Todays petro chemical industry built on the back of the motor car and farming industry is so vast its fighting attempts at every level to maintain the status quo. Its stock holders and employees are only interested in profit of a known product (oil) not some unknown such as wave/tidal /wind/or solar power.
This greed for financial gain will be the final undoing of mankind.